Policymaking through a knowledge lens: Using the embodied-enacted-inscribed knowledge framework to illuminate the transfer of knowledge in a mental health policy consultation process - A South African case study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Marrying principles of evidence-based policymaking, with its focus on what works, with principles of consultative policymaking, with its focus on what works for whom, means finding ways to integrate multiple knowledge inputs into policy decisions. Viewed through the lens of the embodied-enacted-inscribed knowledge framework, policy consultation is a site of knowledge enactment, where the embodied knowledge enacted by individuals engages with the inscribed knowledge contained in policy documents, creating new forms of embodied and inscribed knowledge that move beyond these spaces.

Aim

Using this knowledge framework, this study aimed to trace the movement of knowledge inputs through South Africa's mental health policy consultation summit.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Marais DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7806173 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature