| Description |
xxvi, 374 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Foreword -- Introducing Evidence Based Health Policy: Problems and Posibilities -- Section One: What is the Problem? -- 1. Competing Rationalities: Evidence Based Health Policy? -- 2. Beyond Two Communities -- 3. Evidence Based Medicine - The Medical Profession and Health Policy -- 4. Mind the Gap: Assessing the Quality of Evidence for Public Health Problems -- 5. Health Policy and Normative Analysis: Ethics, Evidence and Politics -- 6. What is New in Health Information? Evidence for Health Consumers and Policy Making -- 7. From Evidence Based Medicine to Evidence Based Public Health -- 8. The Viagra Affair: Evidence as the Terrain for Competing Partners -- 9. Folate Fortification: A Case Study of 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 Healthy 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: A Case Study of Evidence-based Policy Making -- 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 -- 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 |
| Summary |
This work provides a critical perspective on the interplay between evidence generation and policy formulation. The book is illustrated by 11case studies of health policy making that reveal how evidence was used in particular policy making contexts. This provides insights from people who have been involved in the policy process |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography |
| Audience |
Tertiary/Undergraduate, Postgraduate |
| Subject |
Evidence-based medicine.
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Evidence-based medicine -- Australia.
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Medical policy -- Australia -- Decision making.
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Evidence-Based Medicine.
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Evidence-Based Medicine.
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Health Policy.
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Public Health.
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Policy Making.
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Health Services Research.
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Decision Support Techniques.
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Health Policy -- trends.
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Medical policy
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Evidence-Based Medicine.
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Health Policy.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 |
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Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 |
| Author |
Gibson, Brendan.
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Lin, Vivian.
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| LC no. |
2003278616 |
| ISBN |
019551551X |
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