ArticleJournal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine2012
The right kind of evidence--integrating, measuring, and making it count in health equity research.
Article in Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Advocacy for health equity: a synthesis review.The Milbank quarterly · 2015Pooled it
- Program manager perspectives on the service system to meet the needs of youth with concurrent disorders: findings from a Canadian national survey.BMC health services research · 2015Article
- Have we left some behind? Trends in socio-economic inequalities in breastfeeding initiation: a population-based epidemiological surveillance study.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2014Article
- Social inequality in motorcycle helmet use: when a reduction in inequality is not necessarily good news.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2014Article
- Implementing stakeholder-informed research in the substance abuse treatment sector: strategies used by Connections, a Canadian knowledge translation and exchange project.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2014Article
- Changes in the magnitude of social inequality in the uptake of cervical cancer screening in Taiwan, a country implementing a population-based organized screening program.International journal for equity in health · 2014Article
- Introduction--Knowledge translation and urban health equity: advancing the agenda.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2012Article
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Abstract
As health equity researchers, we need to produce research that is useful, policy-relevant, able to be understood and applied, and uses integrated knowledge translation (KT) approaches. The Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and its history of working with provincial government as well as regional health authorities is used as a case study of integrated KT. Whether or not health equity research "takes the day" around the decision-making table may be out of our realm, but as scientists, we need to ensure that it is around the table, and that it is understood and told in a narrative way. However, our conventional research metrics can sometimes get in the way of practicality and clear understanding. The use of relative rates, relative risks, or odds ratios can actually be detrimental to furthering political action. In the policy realm, showing the rates by socioeconomic group and trends in those rates, as well as incorporating information on absolute differences, may be better understood intuitively when discussing inequity. Health equity research matters, and it particularly matters to policy-makers and planners at the top levels of decision-making. We need to ensure that our messages are based on strong evidence, presented in ways that do not undermine the message itself, and incorporating integrated KT models to ensure rapid uptake and application in the real world.
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