School of Administrative Sciences, TÉLUQ, Université du Québec, Quebec City, QC, Canada.
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada.
Int J Health Policy Manag. 2017 Sep 1;6(9):495-499. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2017.38.
Written by a group of political science researchers, this commentary focuses on the contributions of political science to public health and proposes research avenues to increase those contributions. Despite progress, the links between researchers from these two fields develop only slowly. Divergences between the approach of political science to public policy and the expectations that public health can have about the role of political science, are often seen as an obstacle to collaboration between experts in these two areas. Thus, promising and practical research avenues are proposed along with strategies to strengthen and develop them. Considering the interdisciplinary and intersectoral nature of population health, it is important to create a critical mass of researchers interested in the health of populations and in healthy public policy that can thrive working at the junction of political science and public health.
本文由一组政治学研究人员撰写,重点关注政治学对公共卫生的贡献,并提出了增加这些贡献的研究途径。尽管取得了进展,但这两个领域的研究人员之间的联系发展得非常缓慢。政治学对公共政策的方法与公共卫生对政治学作用的期望之间的分歧,通常被视为这两个领域专家合作的障碍。因此,提出了有前途和实用的研究途径,并提出了加强和发展这些途径的策略。考虑到人口健康的跨学科和跨部门性质,重要的是要培养一批对人口健康和健康公共政策感兴趣的研究人员,他们能够在政治学和公共卫生的交叉点上茁壮成长。