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Use of Research Evidence in Public Health Policymaking: Implications for Health Communication

Sat, May 26, 12:30 to 13:45, Hilton Prague, Floor: LL, Vienna

Abstract

Use of research evidence in public policymaking bears little resemblance to an orderly, systematic and calculated process, which greatly complicates the task of empirically tracking and analyzing policymakers’ use of research evidence. Drawing on contemporary theories of the policy process in combination with persuasion and argumentation theory, we implement a theoretically-grounded methodology to track and analyze federal policymakers’ use of research evidence in the formulation of federal policies to combat childhood obesity between 2000-2014. The results of this analysis demonstrate that patterns of research evidence use vary across different stages of the policymaking process and are a function of policy windows. The health communication implications of this work to promoting evidence-informed public health policymaking are discussed.

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