WHEN THE PUBLIC KNOWS BETTER - POPULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY CHALLENGES THE SYSTEM
WHEN THE PUBLIC KNOWS BETTER - POPULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY CHALLENGES THE SYSTEM
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DOI：
10.1080/00139157.1993.9929114
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发表时间：
1993-10-01
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影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
BROWN, P
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作者：
BROWN, P
所谓的“大众流行病学”，其中外行人发现并采取行动的环境危害和疾病。大众流行病学是扩大公众参与公共政策、倡导卫生保健和追求科学知识的一种变体。在流行病学研究中，社区活动家在问题定义、研究设计、结果解释和政策应用等问题上与科学家和政府官员一再发生分歧。这些非专业人员与专业人员之间的差异在各方对数据质量的估计、分析方法、传统上接受的衡量水平和统计意义以及科学方法与公共政策之间的关系方面尤为明显。
called “popular epidemiology,” in which laypeople detect and act on environmental hazards and diseases. Popular epidemiology is one variant of the expanding public participation in public policy, advocacy for health care, and the pursuit of scientific knowledge. In their popular epidemiological efforts, community activists repeatedly differ with scientists and government officials on matters of problem definition, study design, interpretation of findings, and policy applications. These lay-professional differences are especially evident in the parties’ estimations of quality of data, methods of analysis, traditionally accepted levels of measurement and statistical significance, and relations between scientific method and public policy.