Realist Trials and Systematic Reviews - Rigorous, Useful Evidence to Inform Health Policy

"Describing an innovative approach to the evaluation of complex healthcare interventions, this book allows reader to assess what interventions work, how and for whom. Proposing how realist evaluation methods may be incorporated within trials, this approach provides rigorous and useful evidence to inform policy decisions and scientific advancement"--

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Why are trials and systematic reviews necessary but insufficient to inform health policy?; 3. Realist critiques and manifesto for evaluation and reviews; 4. Building realist theory in evaluations; 5. Refining realist theory through process evaluations; 6. Testing realist theory through trials or other evaluation designs; 7. Building and refining realist theory in systematic reviews; 8. Testing realist theory through synthesising outcome evaluations; 9. Using evidence to inform intervention scale-up and transfer; 10. Using evidence to refine middle range theory; Conclusions.

About the author

Chris Bonell is Professor of Public Health & Sociology in the Department of Public Health, Environments and Society, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His research mainly focuses on adolescent health, sexual health and violence. He was involved in scientific advice to the UK government during the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly in the areas of communication strategies and school interventions.G. J. Melendez-Torres is Professor of Clinical and Social Epidemiology at the University of Exeter, where he also holds the citiesRISE Research Chair in Public Mental Health. A registered nurse, his research is primarily in epidemiology and evaluation in child and adolescent health and in intimate partner violence.Emily Warren is an Assistant Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where she evaluates public policies and complex interventions using realist approaches. She is a recipient of the European Society for Prevention Research Presidents' Award in recognition of her work on the philosophical compatibility and feasibility of realist RCTs.

Product details

• Authors: Chris Bonell, Chris (London School of Hygiene and Tropic Bonell, Chris (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) Bonell, Bonell Chris, G. J. Melendez-Torres, G. J. (University of Exeter) Melendez-Torres, Emily Warren, Emily (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) Warren
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2024
• EAN: 9781009456609
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0945660-9
• No. of pages: 134
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Epidemiology, Personal & public health, Social welfare & social services, Social welfare and social services, Social research & statistics, Central / national / federal government policies, Health systems & services, Social research and statistics, Personal and public health / health education, Health systems and services, Central government policies