Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Elective Affinities, Age Of Enlightenment, Flu Season
9 Feb 2018
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Health policy lecture 16: evidence and health policy. Be able to explain the different types of evidence, and how they are used in each stage of the policy process. Understand the relationship between research and policy and some of the challenges. Be able to identify and explain some of the ways in which both researchers and policy makers could take actions to improve the relationship. Evidence: any form of knowledge, including but not confined to research, of sufficient quality to be used to inform decisions. Research: a systematic process for generating new knowledge and relating it to existing knowledge in order to improve understanding. There are a lot of different types of research. Evaluation: scientific-based activity undertaken to assess the operation and impact of policies and the programmes introduced to implement those policies. Formative: evaluation designed to contribute to assisting those responsible for a program to shape the program: used to help form new policies.
