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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on May 12, 2006
The European Journal of Public Health 2006 16(3):336-338; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckl081
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

European Public Health Association

President's column: How can we reduce the knowledge gap between public health research and policy/practice?

R. Horst Noack

EUPHA President

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Public health has been defined as an integrated challenge to improve the health of a population. Successful policies towards this end call for effective interaction within the triangle of public health research, policy, and practice (triangulation) at all levels of society and across all sectors and disciplines involved.

As previous EUPHA conferences have shown European public health research has improved continuously in scope, quality, and quantity. But there exists a significant gap between research on the one side and policy and practice on the other.1 The three fields tend to be rather disconnected from each other. By tradition public health research is focusing on research questions formulated within the research community and not on the actual questions within policy and practice. According to EUPHA's 10 Statements on the Future of Public Health in Europe2 research should focus on the needs of policy and practice, and researchers should learn how to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Dineke Zeegers Paget

EUPHA manager

Markus Kaufmann

Local Organising Committee 2006

Francesca Racioppi, Dinesh Sethi and Inge Baumgarten

WHO Regional Office for Europe


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