On evidence fiascos and judgments in COVID-19 policy

Calls for evidence-based approaches to COVID-19 have sparked up discussions on the use of evidence for policy. In this note, we expand these discussions: while the debate has mostly focused on the types of evidence to be used for policy, we argue that the assessment of judgments involved in data pra...

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Autores principales: Jukola, Saana, Canali, Stefano
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8051544/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33864168
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40656-021-00410-w
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Sumario:Calls for evidence-based approaches to COVID-19 have sparked up discussions on the use of evidence for policy. In this note, we expand these discussions: while the debate has mostly focused on the types of evidence to be used for policy, we argue that the assessment of judgments involved in data practices and evidence production should play a central role in evaluating policy.

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