Evidence-based health policy : problems and possibilities / edited by Vivian Lin & Brendan Gibson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lin, Vivian.

Gibson, Brendan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical policy--Australia.

Medical policy.

Australia.

Evidence-Based Medicine.

Delivery of Health Care.

Medical Subjects:

Evidence-Based Medicine.

Delivery of Health Care.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 374 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Victoria, Australia ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

Evidence Based Health Policy provides a thorough examination of the interplay between evidence generation and policy formulation. The authors' considerable experience in both the gathering of evidence and the policymaking process provides a unique insight into Australian health policymaking and structures. Is evidence-based health policy possible? Eleven case studies reveal how evidence was used in particular policy-making contexts. Other features include an examination of how evidence is constructed and used in differing contexts. Evidence Based Health Policy encourages an approach to health policy that utilises the best available research in a precise, rigorous, and accountable way, and while recognising the complexities, offers real strategies for improving research from those working in the field. Aimed at practitioners and students of health and public-policy, the book provides a thorough examination of the complex and fluid relationship between evidence and policy that comes together to produce evidence-based health policy.

Contents:

Part I What is the problem?

1 Competing Rationalities: Evidence-Based Health Policy? / Vivian Lin 3

2 Beyond 'Two Communities' / Brendan Gibson 18

Part II What does 'evidence' mean?

3 Evidence-Based Medicine, the Medical Profession and Health Policy / Evan Willis, Kevin White 33

4 What is New in Health Information? Evidence for Health Consumers and Policy Making / Sophie Hill 44

5 From Evidence-Based Medicine to Evidence-Based Public Health / Michael Frommer, Lucie Rychetnik 56

6 'Mind the Gap': Assessing the Quality of Evidence for Public Health Problems / Anne Kavanagh, Jeanne Daly, Angela Melder, Damien Jolley 70

7 Health Policy and Normative Analysis: Ethics, Evidence and Politics / Colin Sindall 80

Part III Policy case studies

8 The Viagra Affair: Evidence as the Terrain for Competing 'Partners' / Rosalie Aroni, Rebecca de Boer, Ken Harvey 97

9 Folate Fortification: Public Health Policy Making in a Food Regulation Setting / Mark Lawrence 110

10 The Supply and Safety of Blood and Blood Products

Evidence, Risk and Policy / Albert Farrugia, Liz Furler 127

11 The Development of Nurse Practitioner Policy / Tom Keating, Claudia Trasancos 144

12 Creating Policy for Oral Health: How was the Evidence Used? / Julie Satur 156

13 Regulation of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Victoria / Anne-Louise Carlton 167

14 The Victorian Primary Health Care Reforms / Rhonda Jennings, David Legge 181

15 Evidence-Based Practice in the Australian Drug Policy Community / John Fitzgerald, Tanya Sewards 196

16 Challenging the Evidence

Women's Health Policy in Australia / Karen Willis 211

17 Evidence and Aboriginal Health Policy / Ian Anderson 224

18 The Limits to Technical Rationality in the Health Inequalities Policy Process / Jane Dixon, Beverly Sibthorpe 237

19 Evidence-Based Policy: A Technocratic Wish in a Political World / Jenny M. Lewis 250

Part IV Is the transfer of evidence into policy possible?

20 The Community Model of Research Transfer / Anne Mitchell, Jenny Walsh 263

21 Getting Research Transfer into Policy and Practice in Maternity Care / Judith Lumley, Stephanie Brown, Jane Gunn 272

22 Improving the Research and Policy Partnership: An Agenda for Research Transfer and Governance / Vivian Lin 285

23 Framing and Taming 'Wicked' Problems / Brendan Gibson 298.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

019551551X

OCLC:

53286231