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The new policy implications box
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Public health research and policies occur in the same world and both interact with each other. Nevertheless there is a traditional reluctance both by authors and editors to publish the explicit policy implications of the research as seen by the authors. Even in some epidemiology and public health journals considerations on policy implications within the scientific reports are not permitted in the guidelines for authors. The editorial board ofJECH have a different view, we feel our authors have the right to make explicit the policy implications their findings have. Also this …