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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on May 12, 2006
The European Journal of Public Health 2006 16(4):343-344; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckl069
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

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Learning from Policy Failure and Failing to Learn from Policy

Karien Stronks, Onyebuchi A. Arah and Thomas Plochg

Correspondence: Karien Stronks, PhD, Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands, tel: +31 20 5664892, e-mail: k.stronks@amc.uva.nl

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Evaluation studies provide a key source of learning from policy success and failure. Policy interventions and their evaluation are, however, drenched in inescapable complexity. This makes it more difficult to evaluate this kind of intervention in the highly regarded randomized experimental design. Based on the experiences of the Health Action Zones (HAZs), Judge and Bauld outline key elements of a more realistic evaluation framework, which might contribute to a further understanding of complex policy initiatives in the field of public health.1 Their recommendations provide a good basis for the further development of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Different types of evidence
 

   Theory guided but still open minded
 

   How can evaluators make a difference?
 

   More art than science?
 

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