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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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5083.0: Wednesday, December 14, 2005: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| Recently, the public health community has experienced a very different view of what types and nature of science and scientific evidence are considered appropriate to inform public policy decisions. There appears to be a paradigm shift when it comes to selecting evidence for use in protecting the public health. While the translation of science into policy has always posed challenges, today we are seeing a growing trend to dismiss scientific evidence from the policy process or to demand irrefutable evidence before initiating action. Some charge that science is being selected and applied solely to further political goals or reward special interests. The debate on balancing economic and health interests has confused many about the place and importance in this process of the public health evidence base. It is essential that the public health community become a major actor in determining what evidence is appropriate and necessary to inform public policy decisions, how to address scientific uncertainty in the policy process and how to make certain public health is given the proper priority with respect to economic development. This session will engage questions related to a) sources of evidence, b) the place of evidence in the balance of inputs to policy making, c) ways in which evidence is selected (whose evidence), and d) who decides what evidence is used. Speakers will also consider how public health scientists can organize and direct their work to maximize the impact of evidence on the policy process regardless of whether the context is local, national or international. | |||
| Learning Objectives: Participants will learn about how public health evidence can be evaluated and included as essential to the public policy process. | |||
| Lynn Goldman | |||
Evidence-based medicine: Changing the market with consumer information -- Joel Gurin ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} | |||
| Sound science and junk politics: Public health policy in the balance Michael Silverstein, MD, MPH | |||
| Withdrawn -- Politics and Policy: How data are used in the creation of public health laws Aranthan (AJ) Jones II, MPH | |||
| Selected science: A case study of a campaign to undermine an OSHA carcinogen standard David Michaels, PhD, MPH, Celeste Monforton, MPH, Peter Lurie, MD, MPH | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | APHA-Special Sessions | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA