Integrating Science and Politics for Public Health 2022
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-98985-9_1
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Introduction: Virchow Revisited on the Importance of Public Health Political Science

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that the choices governments make to address infectious disease threats are necessarily and inherently informed by both scientific evidence and a host of other social, ethical, and economic considerations. Managing what are often competing goals is the stuff of politics. Because public health is political, it only makes sense to draw on the insights of political science, a discipline that seeks to systematically understand how politics and government work. However, what s… Show more

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“…Public health scholarship often endorses (implicitly or explicitly) a linear evidence-to-policy model of policy decision-making, where scientific evidence flows directly from knowledge producer (i.e., researchers) to users (i.e., policymakers) (Cairney, 2016;Fafard & Hoffman, 2020;Fafard et al, 2022). Evidence-informed public health (EIPH) is an example of this model (National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools, 2018).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Public health scholarship often endorses (implicitly or explicitly) a linear evidence-to-policy model of policy decision-making, where scientific evidence flows directly from knowledge producer (i.e., researchers) to users (i.e., policymakers) (Cairney, 2016;Fafard & Hoffman, 2020;Fafard et al, 2022). Evidence-informed public health (EIPH) is an example of this model (National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools, 2018).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%