Evidence, policy and practice : Critical perspectives in health and social care.

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This edited book provides a hard-hitting and deliberately provocative overview of the relationship between evidence, policy and practice, how policy is implemented and how research can and should influence the policy process.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Glasby, Jon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, 2011.
Temas:
Social service > Government policy.
Medical policy.
Public Policy
Policy Making
Health Policy
Service social > Politique gouvernementale.
Politique sanitaire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Work.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
Medical policy
Social service > Government policy
Electronic resource.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of figures, tables and boxes
  • Notes on contributors
  • 1 Introduction
  • Tensions between policy and evidence
  • How does evidence influence policy (if at all)?
  • Our aims and approach
  • 2 The policy process
  • Introduction
  • The policy process
  • Evaluation and the policy process
  • Using evidence
  • Evidence-based policy making
  • Defining EBPM
  • Hierarchies of evidence
  • Hierarchies of relevance
  • Evidence-informed policy or evidence-legitimised policy?
  • Conclusion
  • 3 From policy transfer to policy translation: the role of evidence in policy borrowing.
  • Policy transfer
  • From transfer to translation
  • Individualised budgets: explaining policy migration
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • 4 Policy making through a rhetorical lens
  • Different ways of seeing policy making
  • The value of rhetorical analysis
  • Rhetoric confronts uncertainty and ethical dilemmas in policy making
  • Arguments are constructed for particular audiences
  • Rhetoric extends our understanding of rationality
  • Conclusion
  • 5 Implementing policy
  • A brief history of policy implementation
  • Policy implementation or policy change?
  • Making sense of implementation.
  • Conclusion
  • 6 From evidence-based to knowledge-based policy and practice
  • Cases for change
  • different approaches to 'what works'
  • Towards 'knowledge-based practice'
  • Putting it into practice
  • A typology of evidence for decision making?
  • A 'due diligence' approach (aka 'quick and dirty')
  • Conclusion
  • 7 Receptive contexts and the role of knowledge management in evidence-based practice
  • Introduction
  • Why focus on context?
  • Receptive organisational contexts
  • Knowledge management: key concepts
  • Knowledge management: strategies.
  • Ten steps for creating receptive organisational contexts
  • Conclusion
  • 8 Conclusion
  • Index.

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