ArticleJournal of public health (Oxford, England)2017
Evidence-based medicine meets democracy: the role of evidence-based public health guidelines in local government.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 24 citations in OpenAlex.
- Research evidence use in local government-led public health interventions: a systematic review.Health research policy and systems · 2023Pooled it
- Working with democratically elected councillors: Reflections on research engagement in local government.Public health in practice (Oxford, England) · 2026Article
- Assessing the impact of an evidence- and consensus-based guideline for controlling SARS-CoV-2 transmission in German schools on decision-making processes: a multi-component qualitative analysis.Health research policy and systems · 2023Article
- Citizens, doctors, politicians - who´s an expert in times of COVID-19? A survey in Austria and Germany.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2021Article
- [Promotion of physical activity among the elderly as an example of knowledge translation: How do scientific findings enter community practice?]Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2021Article
- Obstacles and opportunities to using research evidence in local public health decision-making in England.Health research policy and systems · 2019Article
- "Alcohol During Pregnancy? Nobody Does That Anymore": State Legislators' Use of Evidence in Making Policy on Alcohol Use in Pregnancy.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2019Article
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- Political priorities and public health services in English local authorities: the case of tobacco control and smoking cessation services.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2018Article
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Abstract
Background: In 2013, many public health functions transferred from the National Health Service to local government in England. From 2006 NICE had produced public health guidelines based on the principles of evidence-based medicine. This study explores how the guidelines were received in the new environment in local government and related issues raised relating to the use of evidence in local authoritites. Methods: In depth, interviews with 31 elected members and officers, including Directors of Public Health, from four very different local government organizations ('local authorities'). Results: Participants reported that (i) there were tensions between evidence-based, and political decision-making; (ii) there were differences in views about what constituted 'good' evidence and (iii) that organizational life is an important mediator in the way evidence is used. Conclusions: Democratic political decision-making does not necessarily naturally align with decision-making based on evidence from the international scientific literature, and local knowledge and local evidence are very important in the ways that public health decisions are made.
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