Journal article
An epistemic community comes and goes? Local and national expressions of heart health promotion in Canada
Abstract
BackgroundThe objective of this study is to examine the existence and shape of epistemic communities for (heart) health promotion at the international, national, provincial and regional levels in Canada. Epistemic community may be defined as a network of experts with an authoritative claim to policy relevant knowledge in their area of expertise.MethodsAn interpretive policy analysis was employed using 60 documents (48 provincial, 8 national and …
Authors
Eyles J; Robinson K; Elliott S
Journal
BMC Health Services Research, Vol. 9, No. 1,
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
December 2009
DOI
10.1186/1472-6963-9-35
ISSN
1472-6963