EVIDENCE BASED PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY AND PRACTICE

New directions in European public health research: report of a workshop

Aileen Clarke¹, Mark McCarthy², Carlos Álvarez-Dardet³, Selma Sogoric⁴, Peter Groenewegen⁵, Wim Groot⁶, Diana Delnoij⁵

¹ Public Health Resource Unit, Oxford, UK
² Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College, London, UK
³ Department of Public Health, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain
⁴ Andrija Stampar School of Public Health, Medical School, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
⁵ NIVEL, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands
⁶ Department of Health Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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Correspondence to:
Dr Aileen Clarke
Public Health Resource Unit, Oxford OX4 2GT, UK; aileen.clarke{at}phru.nhs.uk

Public health draws from a range of academic disciplines, social, medical and statistical, and answers questions relevant to improving the health of populations. We have initiated a Europe-wide study, Strengthening Public Health Research in Europe, to assess the development and use of public health research in both public policy and local decision making. The contemporary challenge for public health research is to integrate the capabilities of different academic disciplines to address policies for health. We have considered the development of public health research in five fields: political epidemiology, community health, health services, economics, and evaluation evidence and synthesis. The organisation and funding of research in Europe should be able to support new research fields and issues, to contribute to policy development and public health practice.

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