Guest Editorial: Getting research into policy and practice

Abstract

Over the past decade or so there has been a growing interest in not only gathering the best available evidence on effective public health interventions, but also on how to use this evidence to make better policy and practice decisions. In 1993 Oxman and colleagues suggested that there are ‘no magic bullets’ for achieving effective dissemination and use of evidence, rather one must use a range of mechanisms in order to get evidence into practice.