Policy is political; our ideas about knowledge translation must be too
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Policy is political; our ideas about knowledge translation must be too.
This article argues that in public health research, standard approaches to knowledge translation are based on (1) an invalid model of the relationship between research knowledge and policy and (2) an oversimplified concept of ‘knowledge’. Standard approaches tend to focus primarily on communicating research knowledge to policy makers in order to increase the impact of research on policy making....
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0143-005X,1470-2738
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2014-203820