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Euro Surveillance : Bulletin Europeen... Dec 2018
Topics: Health Policy; Humans; Public Health; Public Policy
PubMed: 30563589
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.50.1812133 -
Cadernos de Saude Publica Oct 2019
Topics: Brazil; Health Policy; Policy Making; Politics; Public Policy
PubMed: 31691784
DOI: 10.1590/0102-311X00184619 -
Journal of the American Medical... Sep 2016
Topics: Evidence-Based Practice; Health Policy; Humans; Public Health; Public Policy; Washington
PubMed: 27562748
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocw120 -
Science Translational Medicine Jun 2014
Topics: Africa; Delivery of Health Care; Humans; Public Policy
PubMed: 24920657
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3008852 -
BMC Public Health Dec 2014Deliberative dialogues have recently captured attention in the public health policy arena because they have the potential to address several key factors that influence...
BACKGROUND
Deliberative dialogues have recently captured attention in the public health policy arena because they have the potential to address several key factors that influence the use of research evidence in policymaking. We conducted an evaluation of three deliberative dialogues convened in Canada by the National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy in order to learn more about deliberative dialogues focussed on healthy public policy.
METHODS
The evaluation included a formative assessment of participants' views about and experiences with ten key design features of the dialogues, and a summative assessment of participants' intention to use research evidence of the type that was discussed at the dialogue. We surveyed participants immediately after each dialogue was completed and again six months later. We analyzed the ratings using descriptive statistics and the written comments by conducting a thematic analysis.
RESULTS
A total of 31 individuals participated in the three deliberative dialogues that we evaluated. The response rate was 94% (N = 29; policymakers (n = 9), stakeholders (n = 18), researchers (n = 2)) for the initial survey and 56% (n = 14) for the follow-up. All 10 of the design features that we examined as part of the formative evaluation were rated favourably by all participant groups. The findings of the summative evaluation demonstrated a mean behavioural intention score of 5.8 on a scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree).
CONCLUSION
Our findings reinforce the promise of deliberative dialogues as a strategy for supporting evidence-informed public health policies. Additional work is needed to understand more about which design elements work in which situations and for different issues, and whether intention to use research evidence is a suitable substitute for measuring actual behaviour change.
Topics: Adult; Canada; Data Collection; Health Policy; Humans; Male; Policy Making; Public Policy; Research Personnel
PubMed: 25516355
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1287 -
Indian Journal of Ophthalmology Jul 2022
Topics: Health Policy; Humans; Public Policy; Rare Diseases
PubMed: 35791161
DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_905_22 -
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health Mar 2014In this paper I discuss how evidence on public policy is generated and in particular the issue of evaluation of public policies. In economics, the issue of attribution...
In this paper I discuss how evidence on public policy is generated and in particular the issue of evaluation of public policies. In economics, the issue of attribution and the identification of causal links has recently received considerable attention. Important methodological issues have been tackled and new techniques have been proposed and used. Randomized Control Trials have become some sort of gold standard. However, they are not exempt from problems and have important limitations: in some case they cannot be constructed and, more generally, problems of external validity and transferability of results can be important. The paper then moves on to discuss the political economy of policy evaluations for policy evaluations to have an impact for the conduct of actual policy, it is important that the demand for evaluation comes directly from the policy making process and is generated endogenously within it. In this sense it is important that the institutional design of policy making is such that policy making institutions are incentivized to use rigorous evaluation in the process of designing policies and allocating resources to alternative options. Economists are currently involved in the design and evaluation of many policies, including policies about health, nutrition and education. The role they can play in these fields is not completely obvious. The paper argues that their main contribution is in the modelling of how individual reacts to incentives (including those provided by public policies).
Topics: Evidence-Based Practice; Humans; Policy Making; Politics; Public Policy; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; Research Design
PubMed: 24553852
DOI: 10.1177/1403494813516717 -
Health Policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Aug 2022
Topics: Health Policy; Health Services; Humans; Public Health; Public Policy
PubMed: 35710475
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.05.014 -
The Lancet. Public Health Mar 2024
Topics: Humans; Computer Simulation; Health Policy; Public Policy
PubMed: 38429013
DOI: 10.1016/S2468-2667(24)00027-6 -
The Milbank Quarterly Apr 2023Policy Points Upstream factors-social structures/systems, cultural factors, and public policy-are primary forces that drive downstream patterns and inequities in health...
Policy Points Upstream factors-social structures/systems, cultural factors, and public policy-are primary forces that drive downstream patterns and inequities in health that are observed across race and locations. A public policy agenda that aims to address inequities related to the well-being of children, creation and perpetuation of residential segregation, and racial segregation can address upstream factors. Past successes and failures provide a blueprint for addressing upstream health issues and inhibit health equity.
Topics: Child; Humans; Health Policy; Health Equity; Public Policy; Population Health
PubMed: 37096628
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.12640