Maceira, Daniel, and Topp, Stephanie M. (2024) The puzzle of intersectoral collaboration and health. Revisiting implementation research. Health Policy and Planning, 39. i1-i3.

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[Extract] Advancing the field of health systems research requires drawing from diverse bodies of knowledge. This involves not only deepening expertise within our own intellectual domains but also engaging with the research interests, experiential knowledge and skills of others. It requires a commitment to understanding different perspectives, and seeking opportunities for cross-fertilization and knowledge expansion.

This is not a simple task. We have been trained, as social scientists, to go in-depth into our area of specialization, narrow down our research questions, identify and separate effects to better understand how the world works, how policies affect health results and how behaviours change over time when exposed to different stimulus. We are often focused on whether and how institutions become resilient to external change, and how community efforts affect and are affected by the policymaking process. The age-old debates about the merits and limitations of qualitative and quantitative approaches, and how best to combine them, often form a backdrop to this work.

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