Title |
Public health: disconnections between policy, practice and research
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Published in |
Health Research Policy and Systems, December 2010
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DOI | 10.1186/1478-4505-8-37 |
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Authors |
Maria WJ Jansen, Hans AM van Oers, Gerjo Kok, Nanne K de Vries |
Abstract |
Public health includes policy, practice and research but to sufficiently connect academic research, practice and public health policy appears to be difficult. Collaboration between policy, practice and research is imperative to obtaining more solid evidence in public health. However, the three domains do not easily work together because they emanate from three more or less independent 'niches'.Work cycles of each niche have the same successive steps: problem recognition, approach formulation, implementation, and evaluation, but are differently worked out. So far, the research has focused on agenda-setting which belongs to the first step, as expressed by Kingdon, and on the use of academic knowledge in policy makers' decision-making processes which belongs to the fourth step, as elaborated by Weiss. In addition, there are more steps in the policy-making process where exchange is needed. |
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Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Colombia | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Scientists | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United Kingdom | 3 | 1% |
Canada | 3 | 1% |
France | 2 | <1% |
South Africa | 1 | <1% |
Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
Vietnam | 1 | <1% |
United States | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 212 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Master | 45 | 20% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 41 | 18% |
Researcher | 38 | 17% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 13 | 6% |
Professor | 11 | 5% |
Other | 43 | 19% |
Unknown | 33 | 15% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Social Sciences | 59 | 26% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 48 | 21% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 24 | 11% |
Psychology | 14 | 6% |
Business, Management and Accounting | 9 | 4% |
Other | 27 | 12% |
Unknown | 43 | 19% |