What shapes research impact on policy? Understanding research uptake in sexual and reproductive health policy processes in resource poor contexts.

ABSTRACT: Assessing the impact that research evidence has on policy is complex. It involves consideration of conceptual issues of what determines research impact and policy change. There are also a range of methodological issues relating to the question of attribution and the counter-factual. The dynamics of SRH, HIV and AIDS, like many policy arenas, are partly generic and partly issue- and context-specific. Against this background, this article reviews some of the main conceptualisations of research impact on policy, including generic determinants of research impact identified across a range of settings, as well as the specificities of SRH in particular. We find that there is scope for greater cross-fertilisation of concepts, models and experiences between public health researchers and political s

SUBMITTER: Sumner A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3121134 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature