Week 3: Five Anxieties
Class Held In Person
Key questions:
What are the five anxieties in the mainstream pop health KT literature?
Readings:
Kershaw, Paul and Verena Rossa-Roccor. 2022. “Overcoming 5 Anxieties of Knowledge Translation (KT): Implementing Social Science More to Guide Health Policy KT. Under Review in Health Promotion International.
Oliver, Kathryn and Paul Cairney. 2019. “The dos and don’ts of influencing policy: a systematic review of advice to academics.” Palgrave Communications 5:21: https://doi.org/10.1057 /s41599-019-0232-y
Fafard, Patrick and Steven J Hoffman. 2020. “Rethinking knowledge translation for public health policy, Evidence & Policy 16:1, 165-175.
What is the case study on which you will be working this term?
Health doesn't start with medical care: building better budgets for wellbeing.
Reading:
Kershaw, Paul, et al. 2022. "Excerpt from Better Budgets for Wellbeing, a 4-year, CIHR-funded KT project."
In class activity:
Students discuss the 5 anxieties, reflecting on the 3 assigned readings (with support from professor Kershaw to be mindful of the reference material below).
Case study: From the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP)'s weak theory of change -- No data, no problem, no action -- to the Better Budgets for Wellbeing Project.
Divide into (likely) four groups of six people.
Group 1: Case study KT to Government of Canada
Group 2: Case study KT to Government of BC
Group 3: Case study KT to Government of Ontario
Group 4: Case study KT to Government of Alberta
Group 5: Case study KT to Canadian Institute for Health Information
Group 6: Case study KT to Canadian Medical Association
Reference material
Evidence of the 5 anxieties can also be found in a range of articles, including the following (for which I provide short video summaries below to help you find efficiently the most relevant points for our course).
Mitton, Craig, et al. 2007. "Knowledge Transfer and Exchange: Review and Synthesis of the Literature." The Milbank Quarterly 85 (4):729-768.
Contandriopoulos, Damien, et al. 2010. "Knowledge Exchange Processes in Organizations and Policy Arenas: A Narrative Systematic Review of the Literature." The Milbank Quarterly 88 (4):444-483.
Green, Lawrence W, et al. 2009. "Diffusion Theory and Knowledge Dissemination Utilization, and Integration in Public Health." Annual Review of Public Health 30:151–74.
Clavier, Carole, and Evelyne de Leeuw. 2013. "Framing public policy in health promotion: ubiquitous, yet elusive." In Health Promotion and the Policy Process, edited by Carole Clavier and Evelyne de Leeuw, 1-22. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Available online at UBC library.
Raphael, Dennis. 2015. "Beyond policy analysis: the raw politics behind opposition to healthy public policy." Health Promotion International 30 (2):380-396.