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Evidence-based policy

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Evidence-informed policy
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Inquiry into increasing affordable housing supply: evidence-based principles and strategies for Australian policy and practice


This study examined the range of strategies and initiatives governments have used to leverage affordable housing supply across the continuum of housing needs (i.e. from social housing to affordable rental and home ownership) in a constrained funding and increasingly market-driven context, across a range of different jurisdictions and markets.
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Debates in disability and health policy


The purpose of this report is to provide a descriptive account of the findings from the first round of interviews conducted through the Policy Lab in October-December 2017. These interviews focused on three critical areas: health inequities experienced by working-age Australians with disability; current effectiveness of policy in this area; proposed policy objectives to address...
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Building better decisions: why good evidence is used (and ignored) in the built environment sector


Evidence-based decision making (EBDM) is a framework that has yielded huge benefits in fields ranging from medicine to social policy.
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Organisational capacity and its relationship to research use in six Australian health policy agencies

This research article aims to measure the extent to which a range of tools and systems to support research use were available within six Australian agencies with a role in health policy, and examine whether this was related to the extent of engagement with, and use of research in policymaking by their staff.
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The What Works Network: five years on


It is now taken for granted that trialling and testing inform medical practice. The What Works Centres that sit at the heart of the Network have begun to bring that same transformative approach to other public sector professions.