Public Health Policy, Uncertainty, and Genetics  

Oleh:

Goodman, Kenneth W.

Jenis: Article from Books - E-Book
Dalam koleksi: Ethics and Evidence-Based Medicine Fallibility and Responsibility in Clinical Science, page 113-127.
Topik: Ethics and Epidemiology; Evidence-based Policy; Evidence-Based Genetics
Fulltext: Public Health Policy, Uncertainty, and Genetics.pdf (345.41KB)

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Research syntheses have influenced policy and practice in areas as diverse as exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, mammography, and otitis media. In all these cases, decision makers – from individual clinicians to policy evaluators – have had to proceed in an environment shaped by empirical uncertainty. How, generally, can one ethically optimize a public health decision when one is unsure of the lay of the land? This chapter will identify these and other key policy questions, and address the problems that attach to the use of research synthesis to guide or inform public policy and legislation. As above, a number of very interesting case studies are available to illustrate this. We conclude with a discussion about a science – genetics – that will further challenge our ability to make momentous decisions in scientifically fraught environments.

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