Table of Contents

Special Issue: Translational research for primary health care policy and service

Edited by Erica Bell, Gert P. Westert, and Joav Merrick

Editorial

Developing health policy and services for primary healthcare
Erica Bell, Gert P Westert, and Joav Merrick

Review Articles

What is translational research? Background, concepts, and a definition
Erica Bell, Siobhan Harpur, Kathleen Doherty, Janet Struber, and Lorraine Davies

Participative research and policy
Ruth Stewart, Sandy Oliver, Cathy Coppinger and Christine Cavanagh

Communicating health data
David E Nelson, Michael R Spieker and Bradford W Hesse

Priority driven research in primary health care: How well has the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute performed in knowledge translation?
Rhian Parker and Philip Davies

Talking to women about smoking: Informing policy and developing effective practice
Jude Robinson, David Lewis, Denise Hinton and Louise Laverty

Best practice in using evidence for health policy: Do we know what it is?
Erica Bell, Suzie Waddingham, Elaine Hosken, Natalie Rudling, Sandra Murray, Suzanne Martin and Melissa Wagner

Performance assessment at the gateway of the health care system: The case of the Netherlands
Gert P Westert and Francois G Schellevis

Translational research and multimorbidity: Need for a paradigm-shift
Pauline Boeckxstaens, Sofie Bekaert, An De Sutter and Jan De Maeseneer

Vertical integration of health insurance and care provision: Does it improve service delivery?
Arthur Hayen, Bert R Meijboom and Gert P Westert

Original Articles

Evaluating pharmaceutical policy impacts using interrupted time series analysis: An Australian case study
Anna Kemp, David B Preen, Frank M Sanfilippo, John Glover, James Semmens and Elizabeth E Roughead

Validity and performance assessment: The structure, process, outcome relationship
Uzor C Ogbu and Onyebuchi A Arah

Research partnership and knowledge transfer in the development of a generic evaluation toolkit for health promotion interventions in primary care
Aideen Dunne, Angela Scriven and Andrew Howe