Evidence-Based Public Health - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195143760 ISBN 13: 9780195143768

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Ideally, public health practitioners always incorporate scientific evidence in making management decisions, developing policies, and implementing programs. In reality, however, these decisions are often based on short-term demands rather than long-term study, and policies and programs are sometimes developed from anecdotal evidence.
To enhance evidence-based practice, this book provides practical guidance on how to choose, carry out, and evaluate evidence-based programs and policies in public health settings. It deals not only with finding and using scientific evidence, but also with implementing and evaluating interventions that generate new evidence on effectiveness. Because all these topics are broad and require multi-disciplinary skills and perspectives, each chapter covers the basic issues and provides multiple examples to illustrate important concepts. The book presents a sequential framework for addressing public health issues that includes developing an initial statement of the issue, quantifying the issue, searching the scientific literature and organizing information, developing and prioritizing program options, developing an action plan and implementing interventions, and evaluating the program or policy.

About this title

About the Author:

Ross C. Brownson, Elizabeth A. Baker, Terry L. Leet, and Kathleen N. Gillespie are all at St.Louis University School of Public Health, MO.

Review:

"I was looking for a book that was grounded in the familiar territory of evidence based medicine much documented in the pages of theBMJ in recent years. I was not disappointed. I then looked for sensible application of this territory to public health practice and for an easily understood and
systematic approach to making it happen. Again, I was pleased to see precisely this emerge." -Phil Ayres, Leeds Teaching Hospitals

"...a wealth of information and know-how, backed up by good practical illustrations of real-life evidence, issues, situations and decisions."--J R Coll Physicians

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0195143760
• ISBN 13: 9780195143768
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Brownson Ross C., Baker Elizabeth A., Leet Terry L., Gillespie Kathleen N.