Informing Healthy Public Policy

公共卫生决策者和公众面临着广泛的研究证据，这些证据往往相互冲突或不确定。这些证据在科学期刊、政治辩论和新闻中呈现的方式，影响着人们如何理解、使用和采取行动。我们将探讨有关健康的信息是如何传播的，以及人们对问题和政策的了解和思考，以更好地了解我们如何将研究成果传播到政策辩论中。近年来，关于如何使研究证据对决策者更有用和更相关的问题也有很多争论。我们将研究如何提高汇集大量复杂证据的研究的可靠性和有用性。决策者还可能面临可获得证据质量方面的困难。即使是对公共卫生干预措施的大规模评估也往往是不确定的，或者很难应用于现实生活中的决策。更“适合目的”的评估方法的要素是众所周知的，但很少结合成一个连贯的一揽子计划。这包括利益相关者的参与、谨慎的优先事项设定、能够承受外部冲击的研究设计、对常规收集的数据的最佳利用，以及以政策制定者和从业人员可以随时应用于自己决策的方式报告研究结果。我们将把这些因素结合成评估公共卫生政策和规划的有力方法

Public health decision makers and the public are exposed to a wide range of research evidence, that can often conflict or be uncertain. The way this evidence is presented, in scientific journals, political debates and in the news, influences how people understand, use, and act on it. We shall explore how information about health is communicated, and what people know and think about issues and policies, to better understand how we can communicate research findings into policy debates. There has also been much debate in recent years about how research evidence can be made more useful and relevant to decision makers. We shall investigate ways in which we can improve the reliability and usefulness of studies that bring together large quantities of complex evidence.Decision makers can also face difficulties with the quality of evidence available to them. Even large-scale evaluations of public health interventions are often inconclusive or hard to apply to real-life decisions. The elements of a more ‘fit for purpose’ approach to evaluation are well known, but rarely combined into a coherent package. These include stakeholder involvement, careful priority setting, research designs that can withstand external shocks, best use of routinely collected data, and the reporting of findings in ways that policy-makers and practitioners can readily apply to their own decisions. We will combine these elements into robust approaches to evaluating public health policies and programmes