If We Could Achieve This It Would Be A Real Step Forward! Evidence Based Policy Is Not A Strength Of The ADHA.

This appeared a few days ago:Whatever happened to ‘evidence based policy making’?Alf Rattigan Lecture 201826 Nov 2018Gary BanksAustralia and New Zealand School of GovernmentDescriptionFew within government would deny that evidence-based policy-making is important to achieving good outcomes. Australia ’s history provides ample support for that. But it is also apparent that practice over the past decade has fallen short of the ideals espoused. In this, the third Alf Rattigan Lecture, Professor Gary Banks will consider why that has been so and what might be done, at the political and bureaucratic levels, to moderate the increasing tendency for policy to be made 'on the run ’.Here is the link:http://apo.org.au/node/206646You can download a short 11 page document:In analyzing Evidence Based Policy (EBP) a set of 5 analytic questions were suggested to examine a policy direction / initiative:Let us use the lens offered to look at the #myHealthRecord... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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