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JHSRP - QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
February 2005
Would anyone be interested in contributing to the 'Questions & Answers' section of the Journal of Health Services Research and Policy? JHSRP is edited by Nick Black, Professor of Health Services Research and Nicholas Mays, Professor of Health Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London UK.
The aim of the Q&A section is for you to identify and try to answer puzzles, especially methodological ones, in health services research and policy. Readers are invited both to submit questions which they think will be of general interest or which are particularly topical, and to offer answers to questions.
Questions can be ones which you feel have not been satisfactorily answered in the existing literature, ones which relate to 'self-evident' definitions which need to be made problematic, or paradoxes. The questions for which we are seeking an answer for the next issue of the journal appear below:
* When should clinicians be simply told to do what they are paid to do?
* Is there a practical test of the reliability and validity of conclusions based on qualitative research?
(From vol 9.4)
* Do Censuses have any future role for health services planning?
* Is it better for a journal not to have an impact factor than to have a low one?
(From vol 10.1)
Answers can be up to 200 words in length and written with wit and elegance. If more than one, similar, answer is provided, the criterion of choice for publication will be wit and originality.
All contributions submitted for publication should be faxed (or posted) to the Q&A Section Editor: Gillian Parker, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottinghan NG7 2RD, UK. Fax: +44 (0)115 951 5410. Email: [log in to unmask] (Deadline for submission 20th April 2005).
Please see website on: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/php/jhsrp/
for 'instructions to authors' and order form.
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