Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-365) and index
Competing rationalities: evidence-based health policy? -- Beyond 'two communities' -- Evidence-based medicine, the medical profession and health policy -- What is new in health information? Evidence for health consumers and policy making -- From evidence-based medicine to evidence-based public health -- 'Mind the gap': assessing the quality of evidence for public health problems -- Health policy and normative analysis: ethics, evidence and politics -- The Viagra affair: evidence as the terrain for competing 'partners' -- Folate fortification: public health policy making in a food regulation setting -- The supply and safety of blood and blood products: evidence, risk and policy -- The development of nurse practitioner policy -- Creating policy for oral health: how was the evidence used? -- Regulation of traditional Chinese medicine in Victoria -- The Victorian primary health care reforms -- Evidence-based practice in the Australian drug policy community -- Challenging the evidence: women's health policy in Australia -- Evidence and aboriginal health policy -- The limits to technical rationality in the health inequalities policy process -- Evidence-based policy: a technocratic wish in a political world -- The community model of research transfer -- Getting research transfer into policy and practice in maternity care -- Improving the research and policy partnership: an agenda for research transfer and governance -- Framing
