Science, Policy, and Public Impact: Evidentiary Influence on Policy

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  Sedentary Behavior and Public Health: Integrating the Evidence and Identifying Potential Solutions

  In developed and developing countries, social, economic, and environmental transitions have led to physical inactivity and large amounts of time spent sitting.

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  Better Government, Better Science: The Promise of and Challenges Facing the Evidence-Informed Policy Movement

  Collaborations between the academy and governments promise to improve the lives of people, the operations of government, and our understanding of human...

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  Building Capacity for Evidence-Based Public Health: Reconciling the Pulls of Practice and the Push of Research

  We review principles of EBPH, the importance of capacity building to advance evidence-based approaches, promising approaches for capacity building, and...

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  Can Informed Voters Enforce Better Governance? Experiments in Low-Income Democracies

  This article evaluates a body of recent work that uses field and natural experiments to answer the question of whether informed voters can enforce better ...

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  Risk Communication for Public Health Emergencies

  This review defines crisis risk communication, traces its origins to a number of applied fields, and then shows how basic principles have become...