Monday, June 9, 2008

[EQ] From news to everyday use - The difficult art of implementation

From news to everyday use - The difficult art of implementation

 

A literature review by Karin Guldbrandsson

Swedish national institute of public health, 2008

 

Available online as PDF file [35p.] at: http://www.fhi.se/shop/material_pdf/R200809_implementering_eng0805.pdf

 

“….This report is about implementation. It presents and discusses scientific surveys of how innovations, i.e. new methods and products, are introduced, realised and disseminated. When a method, perhaps after many years’ of research, is deemed effective and suitable, we might expect it to be brought into use relatively promptly. But this is seldom the case. At this stage, the method is more likely to be merely at the start of a long process on its way to everyday use.

 

Speeding up the process from finished research findings to the practical use of new methods is an important task. Awareness of the importance of using evidence-based interventions in the field of public health has increased in recent years and there are now quite a few health-promoting methods that are based on high-quality research.

 

There is however a lack of knowledge as to how these methods can best be implemented in different activities. We could say that there is a lack of evidence-based methods for implementing evidence-based methods. It is important to improve the current state of knowledge and this must be achieved by the research community and practitioners in municipalities, county councils, voluntary organisations, companies and central government agencies working together….”

 

Contents

Summary

Definitions

Implementation

Diffusion and dissemination _

Introduction

Quicker implementation – an important task

The fight against scurvy _

Disseminating and implementing new methods _

The research is unanimous – implementation is an art in itself

the conditions of successful knowledge dissemination and implementation

The individual and the organisation

The role of the individual _

The role of the organisation

Organisational capacity for change

Recipients, senders and change agents

Social marketing

Criteria for implementation – a checklist

References

 

 

 

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[EQ] Moments in Leadership: Case Studies in Public Health Policy and Practice

Moments in Leadership: Case Studies in Public Health Policy and Practice

 

Pfizer's Public Health Materials, 2008

 

Website: http://www.pfizerpublichealth.com/partnerships/guide_leadership.aspx

 

Moments in Leadership: Case Studies in Public Health Policy and Practice focuses on the role of public health leadership in influencing health policy, particularly with respect to issues in health and healthcare that intersect at the boundaries of science, behavior, culture, and society.

 

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[EQ] Evidence and Healthy Public Policy: Insights from Health and Political Sciences

Evidence and Healthy Public Policy: Insights from Health and Political Sciences

 

Patrick Fafard, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa
 Research Fellow, Canadian Policy Research Networks

National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy - May 2008

 

Available online as PDF file [33p.] at: http://www.cprn.org/documents/50036_EN.pdf

 

“……This paper focuses on the requirements of healthy public policy, and more importantly the role of evidence, especially scientific evidence in the development of such policies. Simply put, this paper offers a critical account of the extent to which scientific evidence can have an impact on public policy. Drawing on health sciences literature on healthy public policy and political science literature on policy-making, this paper seeks to build a bridge between the worldview of health

sciences4 and the worldview of political (and policy) science in order to offer some insight into how policy gets made and thereby offer some guideposts to those who wish to develop and promote healthy public policy. In particular, this paper focuses on two linked questions.

 

First, in order to provide advice to those who might wish to promote healthy public policies, what do we know about how policy gets made and how and where evidence is most effectively used? Specifically, what are some of the available theories, or absent formal theories, models and frameworks, of the policy process and what role does evidence play in each?

 

Second, building on the contemporary preoccupation with evidence-based decision-making (and, at least in some quarters, evidence-based public policy), in thinking about how public policy is made, what constitutes “evidence” and what is the role of evidence in the policy process?.........”

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

1 MODELS OF POLICY-MAKING — THE VIEW FROM HEALTH SCIENCES 4

2 MODELS OF POLICY-MAKING — THE STAGES MODEL

2.1 Evidence and agenda setting

2.2 Evidence and policy formulation

2.3 Evidence and decision-making

2.4 Evidence and policy implementation

2.5 Evidence and policy-making in a stages model — General observations

3 MODELS OF POLICY-MAKING — THE ADVOCACY COALITION FRAMEWORK AND THE ARGUMENTATIVE TURN

3.1 Advocacy coalition framework

3.2 Evidence in advocacy coalition frameworks

3.3 The argumentative turn and a deliberative approach to policy-making

3.4 Evidence in discursive policy-making

CONCLUSIONS

REFERENCES

 

 

 

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