Abstract:communication means more than the mere transfer of information. The ideal process, which is socially superior to other forms of human action, is what Habermas termed "communicative action" 2 . While the analysis of communicative processes means leaving behind linear models, the goal to derive strategies to improve the use of research results in health policy decision-making may not be as distant as under the application of a more remote paradigm. After all, the researchto-policy transfer can even be interprete… Show more
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