Political realities and institutional structures are often ignored when gathering evidence to influence population health policies. If these policies are to be successful, social science literature on policy change should be integrated into the population health approach. In this contribution, drawing on the work of John W. Kingdon and related scholarship, we set out to examine how key componen...

el-jardali and fadllallah provide an excellent summary of the many dimensions of knowledge use, and the breath of issues and activities that must be considered if knowledge is to be put into practice. however, reliance on a continuum (rather than a cyclical, multidirectional, systems) model creates a number of limitations, particularly when promoting evidence-informed action in the areas of hea...

BACKGROUND The field of research on knowledge mobilization and evidence-informed policy-making has seen enduring debates related to various fundamental assumptions such as the definition of 'evidence', the relative validity of various research methods, the actual role of evidence to inform policy-making, etc. In many cases, these discussions serve a useful purpose, but they also stem from serio...

Temporal evidence classification, i.e., finding associations between temporal expressions and relations expressed in text, is an important part of temporal relation extraction. To capture the variations found in this setting, we employ a distant supervision approach, modeling the task as multi-class text classification. There are two main challenges with distant supervision: (1) noise generated...

I agree that regulators and industry have to improve the regulation of medical devices, but Godlee implies that this will increase the evidence on effectiveness and safety and will lead to improved safety for patients. Even if evidence on safety were available, there is a gap between knowing and informing or doing. Patients would still need to be informed by their clinicians to decide whether t...

Incorporating evidence is fundamental to maintaining the general acceptance and efficiency in public policies. In Pakistan, different actors-local and global-strive to facilitate the development of evidence-informed health policies. Effective involvement however, requires knowledge of the country-context, i.e. knowing the intricacies of how policies are formulated in Pakistan. Obtaining this kn...

This paper empirically investigates the effect of “informed finance” on technological change. We argue that the theoretical literature offers conflicting predictions on whether the information of financiers fosters or impedes firms’ innovation. Using data from a sample of Italian manufacturing firms, we find that the information of firms’ main banks, proxied by the duration of credit relationsh...

This article explores the challenges presented by the mandate for evidence-based practice for family therapists who identify with the philosophical stance of social construction. The history of psychotherapy outcome research is reviewed, as are current findings that provide empirical evidence for an engaged, dialogic practice. The authors suggest that the binary between empiricism and social co...