Used across the public health field, this is the leading text in the area, focusing on the context, participants and processes of making health policy.

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Drawing on the work of the Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine, the 2007 IOM Annual Meeting assessed some of the rapidly occurring changes in health care rela