Stirring the social pot. Community effects of program and policy research.
The increasing interest in a national health program will lead to major changes in healthcare. The coming changes will be larger perhaps than those of the past decade and almost certainly will be outward--outside large institutions, into communities. Community relations will become increasingly important and therefore should become a part of studies to guide administrative decisions regarding program development. Administrators and their research collaborators should be aware of the unintended "side effects" of such community-oriented research. These effects have organizational and research implications that decision makers may choose to use to build community-organization alliances and promote public education to create supportive and informed consumers and a responsive healthcare system.
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School of Nursing, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003625:Data Collection; D006291:Health Policy; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D015401:Nursing Administration Research; D016134:Organizational Policy; D011643:Publishing; D012107:Research Design