Journal
JOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
Volume 13, Issue 6, Pages 935-941Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2006.00790.x
Keywords
complex; evaluation; interventions; public health
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The standard models used in the study of complex public health interventions are inadequate. They adopt a simple empiricist theoretical foundation and attempt to graft onto an essentially open social system a contrived laboratory experimentation typically in the form of a randomized, controlled trial. By understanding the ontological and epistemological claims of critical realism, it is possible to transcend the methodological inadequacy of the standard model approach. Critical realism posits a substantive causal theory, an end to fact-value dualism, and a coherent and emancipatory model of social action; all of these features amount to a systematic and compelling account of public health practice and a coherent approach to evaluation of complex public health interventions.
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