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An epistemic community comes and goes? Local and national expressions of heart health promotion in Canada
BACKGROUND: The objective of this study is to examine the existence and shape of epistemic communities for (heart) health promotion at the international, national, provincial and regional levels in Canada. Epistemic community may be defined as a network of experts with an authoritative claim to poli...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2651134/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19236697 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-9-35 |
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description | BACKGROUND: The objective of this study is to examine the existence and shape of epistemic communities for (heart) health promotion at the international, national, provincial and regional levels in Canada. Epistemic community may be defined as a network of experts with an authoritative claim to policy relevant knowledge in their area of expertise. METHODS: An interpretive policy analysis was employed using 60 documents (48 provincial, 8 national and 4 international) and 66 interviews (from 5 Canadian provinces). These data were entered into NUD*IST, a qualitative software analysis package, to assist in the development of codes and themes. These codes form the basis of the results. RESULTS: A scientific and policy epistemic community was identified at the international and Canadian federal levels. Provincially and regionally, the community is present as an idea but its implementation varies between jurisdictions. CONCLUSION: The importance of economic, political and cultural factors shapes the presence and shape of the epistemic community in different jurisdictions. The community waxes and wanes but appears robust. |
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spelling | pubmed-26511342009-03-05 An epistemic community comes and goes? Local and national expressions of heart health promotion in Canada Eyles, John Robinson, Kerry Elliott, Susan BMC Health Serv Res Research Article BACKGROUND: The objective of this study is to examine the existence and shape of epistemic communities for (heart) health promotion at the international, national, provincial and regional levels in Canada. Epistemic community may be defined as a network of experts with an authoritative claim to policy relevant knowledge in their area of expertise. METHODS: An interpretive policy analysis was employed using 60 documents (48 provincial, 8 national and 4 international) and 66 interviews (from 5 Canadian provinces). These data were entered into NUD*IST, a qualitative software analysis package, to assist in the development of codes and themes. These codes form the basis of the results. RESULTS: A scientific and policy epistemic community was identified at the international and Canadian federal levels. Provincially and regionally, the community is present as an idea but its implementation varies between jurisdictions. CONCLUSION: The importance of economic, political and cultural factors shapes the presence and shape of the epistemic community in different jurisdictions. The community waxes and wanes but appears robust. BioMed Central 2009-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC2651134/ /pubmed/19236697 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-9-35 Text en Copyright © 2009 Eyles et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Eyles, John Robinson, Kerry Elliott, Susan An epistemic community comes and goes? Local and national expressions of heart health promotion in Canada |
title | An epistemic community comes and goes? Local and national expressions of heart health promotion in Canada |
title_full | An epistemic community comes and goes? Local and national expressions of heart health promotion in Canada |
title_fullStr | An epistemic community comes and goes? Local and national expressions of heart health promotion in Canada |
title_full_unstemmed | An epistemic community comes and goes? Local and national expressions of heart health promotion in Canada |
title_short | An epistemic community comes and goes? Local and national expressions of heart health promotion in Canada |
title_sort | epistemic community comes and goes? local and national expressions of heart health promotion in canada |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2651134/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19236697 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-9-35 |
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