How research funding agencies support science integration into policy and practice: an international overview.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Funding agencies constitute one essential pillar for policy makers, researchers and health service delivery institutions. Such agencies are increasingly providing support for science implementation. In this paper, we investigate health research funding agencies and how they support the integration of science into policy, and of science into practice, and vice versa.

Methods

We selected six countries: Australia, The Netherlands, France, Canada, England and the United States. For 13 funding agencies, we compared their intentions to support, their actions related to science integration into policy and practice, and the reported benefits of this integration. We did a qualitative content analysis of the reports and information provided on the funding agencies' websites

SUBMITTER: Smits PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3939639 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature