What Works? [electronic resource] : Evidence-Based Policy and Practice in Public Services
Davies, Huw T.O.
Nutley, Sandra M.
Smith, Peter C.
Bristol, U.K. : Policy Press,
2000.
This book provides a timely and novel contribution to the debate surrounding the role of 'evidence' in specific public policy areas. It explores the creation, dissemination and use of evidence within the areas of healthcare, education, criminal justice, social care, welfare, housing, transport and urban renewal.
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WHAT WORKS?; Contents; Foreword; Editors' Preface; List of acronyms; List of contributors; 1. Introducing evidence-based policy and practice in public services; 2. Evidence and the policy process; 3. Healthcare: evidence to the fore; 4. Education: realising the potential; 5. Criminal justice: using evidence to reduce crime; 6. Social care: rhetoric and reality; 7. Welfare policy: tendering for evidence; 8. Housing: linking theory and practice; 9. Transport: beyond predict and provide; 10. Urban policy: addressing wicked problems; 11. A strategic approach to research and development
12. Debates on the role of experimentation13. Non-experimental quantitative methods; 14. Contributions from qualitative research; 15. Making a reality of evidence-based practice; 16. Learning from the past, prospects for the future
This book provides a timely and novel contribution to the debate surrounding the role of 'evidence' in specific public policy areas. It explores the creation, dissemination and use of evidence within the areas of healthcare, education, criminal justice, social care, welfare, housing, transport and urban renewal.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
County services -- Great Britain.
County services.
Municipal services -- Great Britain.
Municipal services.