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Study findings on health policy are outlined in reports from E.H. Morrato and colleagues

Published in Hospital Law Weekly, January 24th, 2008

"The desire for evidence-based health policy and practice is well established. Routine population-based health information systems play a fundamental role to inform policy decisions and to evaluate their effectiveness," scientists in Brussels, Belgium report.

"This paper presents three case studies of using population-based data in national health policy from three countries-USA (prescription drug safety), Australia (childhood immunization) and UK (hospital waiting times)-which were chosen to represent a diversity of health policy issues. The utilization of population-based databases and the social and political context in which the data were used are examined. Our goal...

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