Tracking the Use and Impact of a Community Social Report: Where Does the Information Go?

Abstract

Social reports (health status reports, report cards, community profiles, etc.) are documents that provide information on what is known about the general social conditions of a particular population, community, or society. Social reports can either focus on a particular issue or several issues for different population levels (international, national, provincial, and municipal). Current, ongoing Canadian social reporting efforts include the Canadian Council on Social Development's annual social report on children, entitled The Progress of Canada's Children, 1 and the Ontario Social Development Council's report on the well-being of the province, called the Quality of Life Index. 2 Despite the large investments in such social reporting efforts, however, little is known about whether these reports are, in fact, read and used (e.g., to help shape public policy, establish local funding priorities), and whether they in fact do any good. A literature search was conducted on nine databases (e.g., Dissertation Abstracts, Medline,

Données relatives aux blessures en Colombie‑Britannique : opinion des décideurs en ce qui concerne le transfert de connaissances

“…Tel qu'il a été mentionné dans divers ouvrages 4,9,20 , la participation des décideurs aux toutes premières étapes de l'élaboration de la recherche et de la détermination des besoins en matière de données est très importante. Les décideurs seront plus aptes à comprendre et même à utiliser les rapports de données publiées, qui leur paraîtront plus pertinents, s'ils ont participé aux premières étapes de leur élaboration [21][22] .…”