Gray B H, Phillips S R
Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
J Health Soc Behav. 1995;Spec No:170-82.
The attempt to assess the impact of medical sociology on health policy encounters operational difficulties regarding what should be counted. After reviewing these difficulties, we argue that there is potential interest among policymakers for sociological contributions to policy debates, but that policy impact has been limited by sociologists' ambivalence, academic career considerations, and by health research becoming a distinct field of research. Suggestions for increasing sociologists' policy impact include attending to policy relevance in both the design of studies and the dissemination of results and by sociologists' becoming more oriented to the field of health policy research.
评估医学社会学对卫生政策的影响时，在应纳入考量的内容方面遭遇了操作上的困难。审视这些困难后，我们认为政策制定者可能对社会学为政策辩论所做的贡献感兴趣，但政策影响一直受到社会学家的矛盾态度、学术职业考量以及卫生研究成为一个独立研究领域的限制。提高社会学家政策影响力的建议包括在研究设计和结果传播中都关注政策相关性，以及让社会学家更专注于卫生政策研究领域。
