Why We Need More Canadian Health Policy in the Media

Résumé du livre

And of course, crucial to our project was the funding of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2009-2017), Research Manitoba (2009-2017), the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (2009-2017) and the George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation (2014-2017). [...] As one researcher summarized the trend: "fewer journals and articles [are] cited, and more of the citations [are] to fewer journals and articles." In other words, the deluge of uncited papers is punctuated by a handful that rise to the surface like the tip of an iceberg. [...] Cabrera points to the many publicly available and robust metrics now available from media and social media and concludes: "As Clinician Educators, we should champion the movement from a 50-year old journal-based index that imperfectly serves as a surrogate of influence to modern analytics with the ability to monitor, measure and share the real- time influence of scholars in their institutional sph [...] According to Zook, academics don't engage with the media because of fear of the unknown - both the media, and how it works, and of engaging with the general public. [...] So they created EvidenceNetwork.ca - with a sizeable grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Research Manitoba, to create a bridge between the world of academia and the world of journalism.