School of Humanities and Languages, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Glob Public Health. 2022 Aug-Sep;17(9):1827-1841. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2021.1998575. Epub 2021 Nov 13.
Participatory modelling seeks to foster stakeholder engagement to better attune models to their decision-making and policy contexts. Such approaches are increasingly advocated for use in the field of health. We review the instrumental and epistemological claims made in support of participatory modelling approaches. These accentuate participatory models as offering a better evidence-base for health policy decisions. By drawing attention to recent modelling experiments in a sector outside of health, that of water management, we outline a different way of thinking about participation and modelling. Here, the participatory model is configured in relation to matters of 'knowledge controversy', with modelling constituted as an 'evidence-making intervention' in relation to the making of science and expertise. Rather than presenting participatory models as an improved technical solution to addressing given policy problems within an evidence-based intervention approach, models are alternatively potentiated as sites for the redistribution of expertise among actor networks as they seek to engage politically in a matter of concern. This leads us to consider possible new directions for participatory modelling in the field of health.
参与式建模旨在促进利益相关者的参与，以使模型更好地适应其决策和政策背景。此类方法在卫生领域越来越受到提倡。我们回顾了支持参与式建模方法的工具性和认识论主张。这些主张强调参与式模型为卫生政策决策提供了更好的证据基础。通过关注水管理等卫生领域以外的建模实验，我们概述了一种关于参与和建模的不同思维方式。在这里，参与式模型是根据“知识争议”来配置的，而建模则被构成为与科学和专业知识的制定有关的“证据制定干预”。参与式模型不是作为基于证据的干预方法中解决特定政策问题的改进技术解决方案提出的，而是作为参与者网络在政治上参与关注事项时重新分配专业知识的场所而被赋予潜力。这使我们考虑了健康领域参与式建模的可能新方向。
