The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPAC; Public Law. No. 111-148) addresses the need for the use of scientific evidence within health care initiatives. Integration of evidence can be complex and involve multiple systems for successful application of evidence-based decision making. As...
"Evidence-based policymaking" is the latest trend in expert government. The appeal is obvious: Who, after all, could be against evidence? Most EBP initiatives seem eminently sensible, testing a plausible policy under conditions that should provide meaningful information about its effectiveness. So it...
Thus, evidence cannot exist and be taken up into policy in a purely rational way. Decisions must be made, and decisions are always made within particular power relationships. Bearing this in mind, Bennett and Jessani (2011) critique the idea of evidence-based policy as it “overlooks or ...
This paper will therefore aim to summarise the importance of evidence-based policy making in relation to private pensions reform in the UK. The paper will cover three key areas; firstly the role of the independent Pensions Commission in making recommendations for reform to the Government, secondly...
Each question identifies a central insight from policy studies and prompts scientists to consider how they would combine an attachment to evidence-based policymaking with other values to produce a realistic way forward. 1. How far should scientists go to persuade policymakers to act on their ...
Politics and international relations Psychology Associated content Collection The politics of evidence-based policymaking: maximising the use of evidence in policy Advertisement Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Humanit Soc Sci Commun)ISSN2662-9992(online)...
Thus, evidence cannot exist and be taken up into policy in a purely rational way. Decisions must be made, and decisions are always made within particular power relationships. Bearing this in mind, Bennett and Jessani (2011) critique the idea of evidence-based policy as it "overlooks or ...
Expanding the Terms of the Debate: Evidence-Based Practice and Public Policy. This chapter discusses the debate of evidence-based practice (EBP) in terms of public policy. It is the purpose of this chapter to view EBP with an eye toward public policy. First, it puts the rise of EBP in ...
I have two mantras I repeat in every one of these meetings, and people start laughing. They call them "Thaler's mantras". One is "Make it easy", and the other is "We can't do evidence-based policy without evidence." When we try something, we insist on running a randomized-controll...
Evidence-based medicine is often described as the ‘template’ for evidence-based policymaking. EBM has evolved over the last 70 years, and now tends to be methodologically pluralistic, operates through specific structures to promote EBM, and is inclusive of a wide range of stakeholders. These str...