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The Right Kind of Evidence—Integrating, Measuring, and Making It Count in Health Equity Research
- Source :
- Journal of Urban Health : Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2012.
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Abstract
- As health equity researchers, we need to produce research that is useful, policy-relevant, able to be understood and applied, and uses integrated knowledge translation (KT) approaches. The Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and its history of working with provincial government as well as regional health authorities is used as a case study of integrated KT. Whether or not health equity research "takes the day" around the decision-making table may be out of our realm, but as scientists, we need to ensure that it is around the table, and that it is understood and told in a narrative way. However, our conventional research metrics can sometimes get in the way of practicality and clear understanding. The use of relative rates, relative risks, or odds ratios can actually be detrimental to furthering political action. In the policy realm, showing the rates by socioeconomic group and trends in those rates, as well as incorporating information on absolute differences, may be better understood intuitively when discussing inequity. Health equity research matters, and it particularly matters to policy-makers and planners at the top levels of decision-making. We need to ensure that our messages are based on strong evidence, presented in ways that do not undermine the message itself, and incorporating integrated KT models to ensure rapid uptake and application in the real world.
- Subjects :
- Integrated knowledge translation
medicine.medical_specialty
Health (social science)
Decision Making
Longitudinal analysis of socioeconomic gaps
Public administration
Health inequity measures
Health informatics
Article
Health(social science)
Translational Research, Biomedical
Lorenz curve
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Manitoba Centre for Health Policy
The Need To Know Team
Knowledge translation
Realm
medicine
Humans
Narrative
030212 general & internal medicine
Sociology
Health policy
Government
Evidence-Based Medicine
business.industry
Health Policy
030503 health policy & services
Public health
Relative versus absolute risk
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Manitoba
Health Status Disparities
Public relations
Health equity
Urban Studies
Health Services Research
0305 other medical science
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14682869 and 10993460
- Volume :
- 89
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Urban Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....08bf5ea4e68e48c08cfd652a5787d170