Finally, attention is given to the policy relevant issue on how to implement the urban air quality signal into large-scale air quality models through the use of functional relationships.
Researchers can also improve the uptake of their research by making efforts to investigate policy-relevant issues.
Jamaica's experience in planning for medical tourism thus far broadly confirms the applicability of Pocock and Phua's anticipated policy-relevant issues in the delivery domain.
Typically treated by media as credible sources of objective information, CTTs have achieved the status of an "alternate academia," and it is common to see their representatives interviewed along with or in lieu of leading academics and treated as independent experts on policy-relevant issues.
This paper addresses this gap in primary health care services research by examining three policy-relevant issues concerning adolescent and young adult use of family physician services: inequity; the unique developmental stage of adolescence; and the distinction between utilization (users versus non-users) and intensity (high users versus low users).
We identified three additional policy-relevant issues pertaining to the health human resources domain: 1) health worker training as a marketing tool; 2) the increased overall demand for health human resources; and 3) the increasing international mobility and altered circulation of health human resources.
Results from the analysis and a discussion about relevant issues and policy implications are then presented.
It then raises some relevant issues of social policy, such as targeting, queuing for primary education, charging for basic social services, the education vaccine against AIDS, and the inherent un-equalizing nature of globalization.
Their analysis, while useful in exploring policy-relevant equity issues, provides less immediately useful information for program managers interested in developing a contextually strategic approach to improving care among the populations they are serving.
To achieve its mission, CARTA aims to: foster the development of multidisciplinary research hubs at African universities, facilitate high-quality research on policy-relevant priority issues, create networks of locally trained internationally recognized scholars, and enhance the capacity of African universities to lead globally competitive research and training programs.
