Engaging with Policy Makers: The Need for Accessible and Timely Health Services and Systems Research in 2020

摘要

In its conception, Healthcare Policy was a partnership between the canadian Institutes of Health Research's Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (IHSPR), the Canadian Association of Health Services and Policy Research and Longwoods Publishing. With the support of IHSPR's scientific director at the time, Dr. Morris Barer, the objective of the journal was to “stimulate communication and cross-fertilization between researchers and healthcare decision makers” (Government of Canada 2006). With a strong focus on knowledge translation and interdisciplinary research, the journal links policy makers with researchers, thus carrying its founding objective forward as a guiding principle for Healthcare Policy.