Evidence-Based Health Policy Problems and Possibilities

Name: Evidence-Based Health Policy Problems and Possibilities
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ISBN: 9780195515510

ISBN-10: 019551551X

ISBN-13: 9780195515510

Edition: 2003

Authors: Vivian Lin, Brendan Gibson, Stephen Duckett

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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…

Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/4/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



List of Figures


List of Tables


Contributors


Foreword



Introduction




What is the problem?



Competing Rationalities: Evidence-Based Health Policy?




Beyond 'Two Communities'




What does 'evidence' mean?



Evidence-Based Medicine, the Medical Profession and Health Policy




What is New in Health Information? Evidence for Health Consumers and Policy Making




From Evidence-Based Medicine to Evidence-Based Public Health




'Mind the Gap': Assessing the Quality of Evidence for Public Health Problems




Health Policy and Normative Analysis: Ethics, Evidence and Politics




Policy case studies



The Viagra Affair: Evidence as the Terrain for Competing 'Partners'




Folate Fortification: Public Health Policy Making in a Food Regulation Setting




The Supply and Safety of Blood and Blood Products--Evidence, Risk and Policy




The Development of Nurse Practitioner Policy




Creating Policy for Oral Health: How was the Evidence Used?




Regulation of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Victoria




The Victorian Primary Health Care Reforms




Evidence-Based Practice in the Australian Drug Policy Community




Challenging the Evidence--Women's Health Policy in Australia




Evidence and Aboriginal Health Policy




The Limits to Technical Rationality in the Health Inequalities Policy Process




Evidence-Based Policy: A Technocratic Wish in a Political World




Is the transfer of evidence into policy possible?



The Community Model of Research Transfer




Getting Research Transfer into Policy and Practice in Maternity Care




Improving the Research and Policy Partnership: An Agenda for Research Transfer and Governance




Framing and Taming 'Wicked' Problems



Notes


References


Index