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Competitive markets for European public health research?
Mark McCarthyProfessor of Public Health, University College London 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Correspondence: Mark McCarthy, Professor of Public Health, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK, tel: +44 20 7679 1711, fax: +44 20 7813 0242, e-mail: m.mccarthy@ucl.ac.uk
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The growth of European public health conferences, from the first meeting on health services research held in Utrecht in 1988 to the 2007 EUPHA (European Public Health Association) conference in Montreux with more than 1000 attendees, shows that public health research in Europe is very much alive. Through the EU-funded study1 SPHERE (strengthening public health research in Europe), bibliometric studies have also found a steady rise of public health scientific publications over the past 10 years.2 Moreover, with an estimated world output of more than
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