Evidence Based Health Policy
Published on 4. August 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
374 pages
978-0-19-551551-0 (ISBN)
Description
Health policy is a highly contested arena where there have been increasing calls for policy to be more 'evidence-based'. A central question remains "Is evidence-based health policy possible?". This book offers a critical perspective on the interplay between evidence generation and policy formulation. The purpose of this book is to critique the notion that evidence-based medicine can make an unproblematic transformation into an evidence-based approach to health policy that makes use of the best available research in an explicit, rigorous and accountable way. The book is illustrated by eleven case studies of health policy making that elucidate how evidence is used in particular policy making contexts. These case studies provide unique insights from the people who have been involved in the policy process. The premise of the book is that although the idea of evidence-based health policy holds considerable promise, it will not be realised without substantial evaluation of the problems, conceptual and practical, that beset it.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Melbourne
Australia
Publishing group
Oxford University Press Australia
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
illustrations
ISBN-13
978-0-19-551551-0 (9780195515510)
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Content
SECTION 1: WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?; 1. Competing rationalities: evidence based health policy?; 2. Beyond 'two communities'; SECTION 2: WHAT DOES 'EVIDENCE' MEAN?; 3. Evidence based medicine, the medical profession and health policy; 4. What is new in health information? Evidence for health consumers and policy making; 5. From evidence based medicine to evidence based public health; 6. 'Mind the gap': assessing the quality of evidence for public health problems; 7. Health policy and normative analysis: ethics, evidence and politics; SECTION 3: POLICY CASE STUDIES; 8. The Viagra affair: evidence as the terrain for competing partners; 9. Folate fortification: public health policy making in a food regulation setting; 10. The supply and safety of blood and blood products - evidence, risk and policy; 11. The development of nurse practitioner policy; 12. Creating public policy for oral health: how was the evidence used?; 13. Regulation of traditional Chinese medicine in Victoria; 14. The Victorian primary health care reforms; 15. Evidence-based practice in the Australian drug policy community; 16. Challenging the evidence - women's health policy in Australia; 17. Evidence and Aboriginal health policy; 18. The limits to technical rationality in the health inequalities policy process; 19. Evidence-based policy: a technocratic wish in a political world; SECTION 4: IS THE TRANSFER OF EVIDENCE INTO POLICY POSSIBLE?; 20. The community model of research transfer; 21. Getting research transfer into policy and practice in maternity care; 22. Improving the research and policy partnership: an agenda for research transfer and governance; 23. Framing and taming 'wicked' problems