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Health Education Research, Vol. 9, No. 4, 519-526, 1994
© 1994 Oxford University Press

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Relating health education research to health policy

A. Whitelaw and J. Williams

School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, Manchester University Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK

This paper argues that research in health education is being driven by a set of implicit values that emphasize formality, rigor and objectivity, and that relatively little attention is being paid to the ways in which research findings are subsequently used. A critique of a detached and formal research perspective is developed around the problems of ‘pure’ knowledge and the potential incompatibility between this and policy-making processes. In this light, it is suggested that the pursuit of academic research rigor at the expense of practical utility is hindering the development of a stronger research-policy link. The paper then goes on to suggest that in adopting a sharper political orientation, health education research could legitimately become less concerned with the restrictive nature of academic formalism with research. The nature of this type of research, the potential it has as well as its limitations are subsequently explored.


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