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. 1976 Winter;2(2):121-32.
doi: 10.1007/BF01319090.

Health services research and health policy

H D Banta, P Bauman

Health services research and health policy

H D Banta et al. J Community Health. 1976 Winter.

Abstract

Health services research (HSR) has the potential to influence the decision-making process in a health services system that is acutelearchers feel, with some truth, that their research has had only a limited effect on health policy. Some reasons for this are described, including the primacy of political, rather than technical, considerations in policy making, the lack of a comprehensive health policy, and the poor quality and irrelevance of much HSR. The role of funding for HSR by the Federal government is described; it is shown that the Federal effort is fragmented, despite the consolidation efforts made in 1968. Increased support for specific targeted, problem-solving health services research is proposed, and some possible methods to achieve this are described.

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