title: Health policy research: successes and challenges.
abstract: This review seeks to explore and explain what health policy research is and why it matters, through pooling the evidence and providing case examples. Alongside examining the types of research involved, and their rationale the paper identifies the challenges taking part in this sort of research may create. Finally the paper suggests how to make clinical research more accessible to policy makers.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Paediatrics, Evelina London Children's Hospital, London, UK.
authors.forename: Claire
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lemer
authors.affiliation: Department of General Paediatrics, Evelina London Children's Hospital, London, UK.
authors.forename: C Ronny
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Cheung
authors.affiliation: Department of General and Adolescent Paediatrics, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK.
authors.forename: Russell
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Viner
authors.affiliation: Department of Child Health, Evelina London Children's Hospital, King's College London, London, UK.
authors.forename: Ingrid
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Wolfe
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006291:Health Policy; D006292:Health Priorities; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D011050:Policy Making
keywords: General Paediatrics; Health Service