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Capturing complex realities: understanding efforts to achieve evidence-based policy and practice in public health

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Kerry Joyce

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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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Author(s): Smith KE, Joyce KE

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Evidence and Policy

Year: 2012

Volume: 8

Issue: 1

Pages: 57-78

Print publication date: 01/01/2012

ISSN (print): 1744-2648

ISSN (electronic): 1744-2656

Publisher: The Policy Press

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/174426412X6201371

DOI: 10.1332/174426412X6201371

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