Full Description
In an ideal world, public health practitioners always incorporate scientific evidence when making management decisions, developing policies, and implementing programs. In reality, these decisions are often based on short-term demands rather than long-term study, and policies and programs are sometimes developed around anecdotal evidence.
To address these issues, many factors may lead to a more evidence-based approach to decision making, including enhanced individual skills, wider use of data and analytic tools, and a more favorable organizational climate.
Evidence-Based Public Health provides practical guidance on how to choose, implement, and evaluate evidence-based programs and policies in public health settings. It deals not only with locating and utilizing scientific evidence but also with implementing and evaluating interventions that generate new evidence.
This revised and updated edition reflects the growing body of data and information on evidence-based public health, focuses on health equity, features a new chapter on effective communication and disseminating public health information, and includes new case studies from around the world.
Contents
Foreword by Jonathan E. Fielding
Preface
Chapter 1: The Need for Evidence-Based Public Health
Chapter 2: Building Capacity for Evidence-Based Public Health
Chapter 3: Assessing Scientific Evidence for Public Health Action
Chapter 4: Understanding and Applying Economic Evaluation and Other Analytic Tools
Chapter 5: Assessing and Engaging Communities
Chapter 6: Quantifying the Issue
Chapter 7: Developing a Statement of the Issue
Chapter 8: Searching the Scientific Literature and Using Systematic Reviews
Chapter 9: Developing and Prioritizing Intervention Options
Chapter 10: Planning for Program and Policy Implementation
Chapter 11: Evaluating the Program or Policy
Chapter 12: Disseminating Evidence-Based Public Health
Chapter 13: Opportunities for Advancing Evidence-Based Public Health
Glossary
Index
