Evidence, policy and practice : Critical perspectives in health and social care

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457246203321
• Autore: Glasby Jon
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bristol : , : Policy Press, , 2011; ©2011
• ISBN: 1-84742-284-5; 1-4473-0225-7; 1-283-21262-5; 1-84742-943-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (138 p.)
• Disciplina: 362
• Soggetti: Social service - Government policy; Medical policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE - Human Services; POLITICAL SCIENCE - Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; SOCIAL SCIENCE - Social Work; Policy Making; Public Policy; Electronic resource; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Ten steps for creating receptive organisational contexts -- Conclusion -- 8 Conclusion -- Index.; Conclusion -- 6 From evidence-based to knowledge-based policy and practice -- Cases for change -- different approaches to 'what works' -- Towards 'knowledge-based practice' -- Putting it into practice -- A typology of evidence for decision making? -- A 'due diligence' approach (aka 'quick and dirty') -- Conclusion -- 7 Receptive contexts and the role of knowledge management in evidence-based practice -- Introduction -- Why focus on context? -- Receptive organisational contexts -- Knowledge management: key concepts -- Knowledge ; management: strategies.; Policy transfer -- From transfer to translation -- Individualised budgets: explaining policy migration -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- 4 Policy making through a rhetorical lens -- Different ways of seeing policy making -- The value of rhetorical analysis -- Rhetoric confronts uncertainty and ethical dilemmas in policy making -- Arguments are constructed for particular audiences -- Rhetoric extends our understanding of rationality -- Conclusion -- 5 Implementing policy -- A brief history of policy implementation -- Policy implementation or policy change? -- Making sense of implementation.; List of figures, tables and boxes -- Notes on contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Tensions between policy and evidence -- How does evidence influence policy (if at all)? -- Our aims and approach -- 2 The policy process -- Introduction -- The policy process -- Evaluation and the policy process -- Using evidence -- Evidence-based policy making -- Defining EBPM -- Hierarchies of evidence -- Hierarchies of relevance -- Evidence-informed policy or evidence-legitimised policy? -- Conclusion -- 3 From policy transfer to policy translation: the role of evidence in policy borrowing.
• Sommario/riassunto: This edited book provides a hard-hitting and deliberately provocative overview of the relationship between evidence, policy and practice, how policy is implemented and how research can and should influence the policy process.