Table 1.
Details of participants recruited for interviews, including the level of government they predominantly work within and a non-identifiable summary of their current/previous roles.
Table 2.
Summary of the six categories of the conceptual framework for understanding rural and remote health (Bourke et al., 2012).
Table 3.
Summary of the three stages of evidence use as outlined by conceptual framework for context-based evidence-based-policy decision making (Dobrow et al., 2004).
Fig 1.
Applying the conceptual framework for understanding rural and remote health (Bourke et al., 2012) to the framework for context-based evidence-based decision making (Dobrow et al., 2004).
Table 4.
Summary of the theoretical thematic analysis to show the influence of the Australian rural context on the use of the evidence in the policy making process for the prevention of IHD.