Green Lawrence W
UCSF CCC Population Sciences, Box 0981, San Francisco, CA 94143-0981, USA.
Am J Public Health. 2006 Mar;96(3):406-9. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.066035. Epub 2006 Jan 31.
Public health asks of systems science, as it did of sociology 40 years ago, that it help us unravel the complexity of causal forces in our varied populations and the ecologically layered community and societal circumstances of public health practice. We seek a more evidence-based public health practice, but too much of our evidence comes from artificially controlled research that does not fit the realities of practice. What can we learn from our experience with sociology in the past that might guide us in drawing effectively on systems science?
公共卫生向系统科学提出的要求,就如同40年前向社会学提出的要求一样,即帮助我们揭示不同人群中因果力量的复杂性,以及公共卫生实践所处的生态层次化社区和社会环境的复杂性。我们寻求一种更基于证据的公共卫生实践,但我们的证据太多来自于人为控制的研究,这些研究并不符合实践的现实情况。我们能从过去与社会学的经验中学到什么,从而指导我们有效地利用系统科学呢?