Facilitators and barriers of research adoption to policy action in five Latin American countries : preliminary results

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The study aims to determine the facilitators and barriers of implementing sodium reduction policies and programs in five Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Paraguay, and Peru. The findings of the research are categorized according to the Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services (PARiHS), which are factors that promote or impede research uptake into policy decision making. The factors are: content, process, actor, and context, which are described with illustrative examples. A Table of Results provides “Key facilitators to research uptake into political action.” Appendices provide details of the methodology and interview/survey materials.

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RESEARCH TO POLICY, HEALTH POLICY, SALT, SODIUM INTAKE, NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EVIDENCE-BASED PLANNING, ADVOCACY, LATIN AMERICA, COSTA RICA, BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, PERU, PARAGUAY, SOUTH AMERICA

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