A Window onto the World of Social Science Research

February 07, 2017Social science and the future of health care go hand-in-hand, but it ' s an underappreciated partnership.We live in a moment when social science research is often misunderstood or even just absent from public-policy discussion (let alone conversation at most dinner tables). Although many people are engaged in investigating our world —backed by federal, foundation, or private funding—research results end up in peer-reviewed journals that are not widely circulated outside of professional research and academic circles.It ’s tragic that the innovative efforts social scientists make to study people are often more interesting and even heroic than many realize, and the empirical data scientists generate—although of course subject to error and not always conclusive—can directly inform our collective decision-making in ways that from-the-hip pontificating and speculation cannot.Consider health care delivery, for example: understanding how people engage with information (and with each other) is crucial for health care innovation. Social science and the future of health care go hand-in-hand, yet it is an underappreciated partnership.We bring together  professional observers of everyday life in a setting more akin to a coffee shop than a conference.To address this gap,RTI Internationaland public radio stationWNCU (based in Durham, NC) have developedThe Measure of Everyday Life, a weekly show on social science that debuted in January 2015 and has appeared week...
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