Integrating Science and Politics for Public Health.

Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Integrating Science and Politics for Public Health -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I Public Health Political Science: Prospects for Partnership -- 1 Introduction: Virchow Revisited on the Importance of Public Health Political Science -- 1 Introducing This Book -- 2 Conceptual Ground Clearing -- 3 This Book in Detail -- References -- 2 Political Science In, Of, and With Public Health -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From a Sociology of Medicine to a Sociology of Public Health -- 3 A Typology of the Interaction of Public Health and Political Science -- 3.1 Public Health Without Political Science -- 3.2 Political Science in Public Health -- 3.3 Political Science of Public Health -- 3.4 Political Science with Public Health -- 4 Implications for Thinking About the Role of Evidence in the Making of Public Health Policy -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Professions, Data, and Political Will: From the Pandemic Toward a Political Science with Public Health -- 1 Prologue: Fermentation and Science -- 2 Introduction -- 3 The Political Status of the Public Health Profession: On Top or on Tap? -- 4 The Politics of Data -- 5 Political Will and the Politics of Agency -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Public Health Policymaking, Politics, and Evidence -- 1 Introduction -- 2 How Does Public Health Understand Evidence? -- 3 How Does Public Health Understand Policymaking? -- 4 How Does Public Health Understand Politics? -- 5 How Does Public Health Understand Community in Conceptualizations of Evidence, Politics, and Power? -- 6 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Part II Politics, Evidence, and Policymaking: A Public Health Political Science Approach -- 5 How Policy Appetites Shape, and Are Shaped by Evidence Production and Use -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Rationalist Model.

2.1 The Dominance of the Rationalist Model -- 2.2 Why Has This Rationalist Model Held Strong, and Does It Matter? -- 3 An Alternative: The Political Economy of Knowledge? -- 3.1 Shaping the Evidence Base -- 3.2 Shaping Evidence Mobilisation -- 3.3 Shaping Evidence Use -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- 6 Sidestepping the Stalemate: The Strategies of Public Health Actors for Circulating Evidence into the Policy Process -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theory and Methods-Considering Strategies for Evidence Circulation in Local Policy Subsystem -- 2.1 Evidence and the Policy Process -- 2.2 The Active Transportation Policy Study -- 3 Strategies of Public Health Actors to Circulate Evidence into the Policy Process -- 3.1 Framing Active Transportation and Health Through Evidence -- 3.2 Circulating Evidence Within the Local Policy Subsystem -- 4 How Local Public Health Actors Conceive of the Policy Process -- 4.1 Traces of the Moral High Ground in How They Engage with Other Policy Sectors -- 4.2 Attention to Politics -- 5 Discussion -- References -- 7 Beyond the Public Health/Political Science Stalemate in Health Inequalities: Can Deliberative Forums Help? -- 1 Introduction: Mini-Publics and Deliberative Fora as a Solution to the Stalemate? -- 2 The Case for Mini-Publics in Public Health Policy -- 3 The Case Study: Tackling Health Inequalities in Scotland and England -- 4 Empirical Evidence Demonstrating Greater Than Perceived Alignment Between Public Views of, and Research on, Health Inequalities -- 4.1 What Does Existing Qualitative Research Tell Us About Public Understandings of Health Inequalities and Potential Policy Responses to These Inequalities in the UK? -- 4.2 What Do Surveys Tell Us About Public Understandings of Health Inequalities and Potential Policy Responses to These Inequalities in the UK?.

4.3 What Do Citizens' Juries Tell Us About Public Understandings of Health Inequalities and Potential Policy Responses to These Inequalities in the UK? -- 5 Concluding Discussion -- References -- 8 Is Local Better? Evolving Hybrid Theorising for Local Health Policies -- 1 The Rise of Local -- 2 'Healthy Cities' as Policy Code, and 'Health Cities' as a Rhetoric -- 3 Translating Knowledge or Moving It Through the System? -- 4 Policy Transfer: Scaling up and Scaling Wide -- 5 Framing and Entrepreneurship for Network and Systems Change -- 6 How is Local Better? -- References -- 9 Select Committee Governance and the Production of Evidence: The Case of UK E-cigarettes Policy -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Select Committees' Impact on Policy -- 3 Select Committees as Evidence Synthesisers and Producers -- 4 Select Committee Governance -- 5 Corporate Actors and Policy Influence -- 6 UK E-cigarette Policy and the Science and Technology Committee Enquiry -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- Part III Making Public Health Policy: Insights from Political Science -- 10 The Policy and Politics of Public Health in Pandemics -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The H1N1 Pandemic in Nova Scotia -- 3 How Was the H1N1 Pandemic Political? -- 3.1 Structures and Institutions -- 3.2 Interests -- 3.3 Discourses and Narratives -- 4 How Were Vaccines and Antivirals Addressed by Policy-Makers During H1N1 pandemic, and What Lessons are Relevant for the COVID-19 Pandemic? -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- 11 How Can Policy Theory Help to Address the Expectations Gap in Preventive Public Health and 'Health in All Policies'? -- 1 Introduction: The Search for Political Science Within Public Health -- 2 Public Health Provides a Coherent Narrative on Policy Change -- 2.1 Public Health Provides a General Narrative of Policy and Policymaking -- 2.2 Health in All Policies (HiAP) Takes It One Step Further.

3 Governments Adopt Similar Arguments, but There Is Always a Gap Between Commitments and Outcomes -- 4 Policy Theory Relates This Gap to Bounded Rationality and Complexity -- 4.1 Bounded Rationality Causes Uncertainty and Ambiguity -- 4.2 Complex Policymaking Environments Constrain and Facilitate Action -- 5 These Factors Help Explain: But not Close-The HiAP Implementation Gap -- 5.1 Theme 1: HiAP as a Symbol for High but Unfulfilled Expectations -- 5.2 Theme 2: Use Policy Theory Insights to Inform Programme Theory and Reframe the Evaluation of HiAP -- 5.3 Theme 3: Political Science as a Source of Practical Lessons for Public Health -- 6 Conclusion: What Are Policy Theories For? -- References -- 12 Moving Beyond Health in All Policies: Exploring How Policy Could Front and Centre the Reduction of Social Inequities in Health -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Public Health Policy, Healthy Public Policy, and HiAP -- 3 HiAP's Confused Intentionality and Ambiguous Directionality -- 3.1 Confused Intentionality: The Shortcomings of HiAP to Address Social Inequity in Health -- 3.2 Ambiguous Directionality: The Contribution of Non-health Sectors to Health -- 4 Towards a Framework Focused on the Reduction of Social Inequities -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- 13 Mechanisms to Bridge the Gap Between Science and Politics in Evidence-Informed Policymaking: Mapping the Landscape -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Understanding the Gap Between Science and Politics in Public Health Policymaking -- 1.2 Bridging the Gap Between Science and Politics in Public Health Policymaking -- 2 Methods -- 3 Mapping the Landscape -- 3.1 Co-production of Evidence -- 3.2 Public Deliberation of Evidence -- 3.3 Knowledge Mobilization (KM) -- 3.4 Expert Advisory Bodies and Roles -- 3.5 Policy Experimentation and Evaluation -- 4 Toward a Typology -- 4.1 Type of Bias Addressed.

4.2 Phase of the Evidence-Policy Process -- 4.3 Relevant Policy Concerns -- 4.4 Actors and Institutions Involved -- 4.5 Locus of Authority -- 4.6 Relationship with Government Actors and Institutions -- 5 Discussion -- References -- 14 Conclusion: The Added Value of Political Science in, of, and with Public Health -- 1 Epistemic Trespassing for Better Public Health Policy -- 2 Does Public Health Political Science Add Value? -- 3 A Development Agenda -- References -- Index.

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