Capturing complex realities : understanding efforts to achieve evidence-based policy and practice in public health
Smith, Katherine E and Joyce, Kerry E. (2012) Capturing complex realities : understanding efforts to achieve evidence-based policy and practice in public health. Evidence and Policy, 8 (1). pp. 57-78. ISSN 1744-2648
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Abstract
Studies exploring how and why evidence informs decisions (or not) often focus on perceived cultural, communicative and institutional gaps between research producers and users. More recently, there has been a growing interest in exploring how political differences between competing 'policy networks' might shape research utilisation. Drawing on two public health case studies, this paper highlights the multiplicity of divisions informing knowledge translation, arguing that this calls into question the appropriateness of prioritising professional or political divisions. It concludes by outlining how complexity theories might be employed to develop more sophisticated ways of conceptualising the relationships between research, policy and practice.
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Smith, Katherine E ![]() | Item type: | Article |
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ID code: | 69896 |
Notes: | This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of an article published in Evidence & Policy. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is: Smith, K. E., & Joyce, K. E. (2012). Capturing complex realities: understanding efforts to achieve evidence-based policy and practice in public health. Evidence and Policy, 8(1), 57-78. https://doi.org/10.1332/174426412X6201371 |
Keywords: | law, medical sciences, health inequalities, Social Sciences, Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine, Social Sciences(all), Health Policy |
Subjects: | Social Sciences Medicine > Public aspects of medicine > Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
Department: | Strategic Research Themes > Health and Wellbeing Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Social Work and Social Policy > Social Work and Social Policy |
Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
Date deposited: | 20 Sep 2019 15:37 |
Last modified: | 21 Feb 2021 02:42 |
URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/69896 |
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