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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA |
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3136.0: Monday, December 12, 2005: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| We invite abstracts (and will also be soliciting presentations) for our session on the social history of “evidence-based” public health. Over the past several decades the epistemological approach of so-called “evidence-based” medicine has become institutionalized in the biomedical establishment and has had considerable influence upon research agendas, methodological perspectives, and policy-making in the medical field. In recent years, public health scholars and policy makers have likewise been increasingly required to provide the “evidence basis” for activities in the public health field. To address important concerns about the potentially reactionary - and perhaps sometimes progressive - implications of "evidence-based" approaches to public health, this session provides a historical and critical perspective on evidence-based medicine and public health and its implications for research, policy, practice, and the health of the public. Topics to be considered include: (a) how and when did the idea of "evidence-based" approaches get introduced into the public health and medical discourse and practice, by whom, and why?; (b) what is the history of debates over "evidence"? - including what sort of evidence counts for whom, in favor or in opposition to specific progressive and/or reactionary policies affecting the public's health?; (c) what are the implications of technocratic “evidence-based” public health for movements that have sought to democratize scientific research approaches?; and (d) discussion of the contemporary relevance of historical debates over these issues, as an effort to help clarify current understanding of the salience - or harm - of "evidence-based" approaches for work advancing links between social justice and public health. This session will be in the Monday morning 10:30 to 12 noon APHA meeting timeslot. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1) Understand importance of history of the idea of "evidence-based" public health and medicine 2) Articulate key issues involved in the debate over what counts as "evidence" | |||
| Luis Aviles, PhD Anne-Emanuelle Birn, ScD | |||
| Introduction: The neglect of historical evidence Luis Aviles | |||
| Reconstructing Data: Evidence-Based Medicine in Context Nadav Davidovitch, MD, Dani Filc, MD, PhD | |||
| Which Evidence? Racial Inequalities in Mental Health Care Kirby Randolph, PhD | |||
Evidence-Based Medicine & Evidence-Based Public Health: A critical perspective ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Seiji Yamada, MD, MPH | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Spirit of 1848 Caucus | ||
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA