ArticleOpen medicine : a peer-reviewed, independent, open-access journal2010
The use of knowledge translation and legal proceedings to support evidence-based drug policy in Canada: opportunities and ongoing challenges.
Article in Open medicine : a peer-reviewed, independent, open-access journal, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Interventions to improve the use of systematic reviews in decision-making by health system managers, policy makers and clinicians.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012Pooled it
- Public health understandings of policy and power: lessons from INSITE.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2012Article
- Controversies in knowledge translation for community-based drug treatment: the need to the end policies of the war on drugs and mass incarceration of drug offenders to achieve health equity.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2012Review
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Abstract
There is growing recognition, particularly in the areas of illicit drug policy and HIV prevention, that policy-makers are in many instances implementing suboptimal programs and services because they are not basing their decisions on the best available scientific evidence. One notable example where a policy-making body has failed to use scientific evidence to inform policy is the Canadian federal government's opposition to Vancouver's supervised injection facility despite a large body of scientific evidence indicating that the program is associated with a range of health and social benefits. Two of the key strategies that have been used to try to shift drug policy toward an evidence-based approach and maintain the operation of this evidence-based health facility are knowledge translation and legal actions. We provide an overview of these two strategies and hope it will offer lessons for the implementation of evidence-based approaches in other controversial areas of public policy.
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