Week 3: Five Anxieties

Key question: 

What are the five anxieties in the mainstream pop health KT literature?  What evidence is there for the anxieties in the assigned readings?

Course material this week contributes to the following Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) recommended core competencies:

ASPPH Competency Bullet 9: Approaches to advocating for public health policies.

Readings

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.

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Other Reference Material that May be of Interest (not assigned reading)

Sudsawad, Pimjai. 2007. Knowledge Translation: Introduction to Models, Strategies, and Measures. http://www.ktdrr.org/ktlibrary/articles_pubs/ktmodels/ktintro.pdf Links to an external site.. Accessed December 29, 2014.

Greenhalgh, Trisha, and Sietse Wieringa. 2011. "Is it time to drop the 'knowledge translation' metaphor? A critical literature review." Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 104:501–509.

Rycroft-Malone, Jo. 2004. "The PARIHS Framework—A Framework for Guiding the Implementation of Evidence-based Practice." Journal of Nursing Care Quality 19 (4):297-304.

Lavis, John N. 2006. "Research, Public Policymaking, and Knowledge-Translation Processes: Canadian Efforts to Build Bridges." The Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions 26 (1):37-45.

In class activity: 

Students lead discussions of each article.  Objective is to find evidence of the 5 anxieties, and share with fellow classmates.

Case study:  A weak theory of change.  The origins of Generation Squeeze.  Measuring and monitoring early child development by the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP).  No data, no problem, no action.