1 Turning evidence into practice and policy: pre-requisites, pitfalls and prospects

Tackling health inequalities: turning policy into practice?

Acknowledgements We are grateful to the authors of the papers commissioned for the seminars. We also wish to thank all the seminar participants who commented on the papers and provided valuable insights from their own experiences. The Health Development Agency (www.hda.nhs.uk) is the national authority and information resource on what works to improve people's health and reduce health inequalit...

Prospects and Pitfalls in Theory and Practice

Evolutionary Social Psychology : Prospects and Pitfalls 1

The principles of evolutionary psychology and the traditional assumptions of social psychology are highly compatible. Both disciplines trace observed behavioral variability to situational variability. Both assume that psychological mechanisms sensitive to social information are central to causal accounts of social behavior. Questions about the origins and functions of these psychological mechan...

Assessing Correctional Rehabilitation: Policy, Practice, and Prospects

A theme that has persisted throughout the history of American corrections is that efforts should be made to reform offenders. In particular, at the beginning of the 1900s, the rehabilitative ideal was enthusiastically trumpeted and helped to direct the renovation of the correctional system (e.g., implementation of indeterminate sentencing, parole, probation, a separate juvenile justice system)....

Adolescent health and youth development: turning social policy into public health practice.

The blueprint for improving the health of Americans, Healthy People 2010, contains eight measurable leading health indicators for adolescents and young adults, with six targets directed at morbidity and mortality. These are reduction of (1) deaths caused by motor vehicle crashes, (2) homicides, (3) proportion of youth engaging in binge drinking of alcoholic beverages, (4) past-month use of illi...