{"title":"The best medicine: Lessons from health for policy randomistas","authors":"Andrew Leigh","doi":"10.1177/1035719x231226437","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The Australian Government has established the Australian Centre for Evaluation, with a mandate to conduct rigorous evaluations, including randomised trials. This approach draws heavily on the transformation of medicine. During the 20th century, medicine evolved into a discipline that is largely driven by evidence from clinical trials. Drawing appropriate lessons from health has the potential to substantially improve the equity and effectiveness of policymaking in Australia.","PeriodicalId":37231,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation Journal of Australasia","volume":"19 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Evaluation Journal of Australasia","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1035719x231226437","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Australian Government has established the Australian Centre for Evaluation, with a mandate to conduct rigorous evaluations, including randomised trials. This approach draws heavily on the transformation of medicine. During the 20th century, medicine evolved into a discipline that is largely driven by evidence from clinical trials. Drawing appropriate lessons from health has the potential to substantially improve the equity and effectiveness of policymaking in Australia.