Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Public Health Evidence

Public Health Evidence



Author: Loraine Taylor
Edition: 1
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0198520832



Public Health Evidence: Tackling Health Inequalities


As public health issues have gained an increasingly high political profile, the need for policy and management decisions to be informed by robust evidence of the effectiveness is now viewed as crucial. Medical books Public Health Evidence. While evidence-based medicine is a well accepted feature in clinical health care, public health interventions are inherently more complex and present both significant challenges and opportunities for advancing this approach. In England, developments include the setting up of the Centre of Public Health Excellence, at the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), with the responsibility for providing evidence and guidelines on the effectiveness of interventions and programmes in priority areas of public health. Further important contributions are also being made by many other research centres and groups. This book presents many of these contributions and provides a state of the art compendium on this subject Medical books Evidence-Based Public Health. Categories: Evidence-Based Medicine, Public health, Evidence-Based Medicine. Contributors: Ross C. Brownson - Author. Format: Hardcover

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Categories: Evidence-Based Medicine, Public health, Evidence-Based Medicine. Contributors: Ross C. Brownson - Author. Format: Hardcover

Categories: Evidence-Based Medicine, Public health, Evidence-Based Medicine. Contributors: Ross C. Brownson - Author. Format: Hardcover

Categories: Evidence-Based Medicine, Health Policy->Great Britain. Contributors: Amanda Killoran - Editor. Format: Paperback

Categories: Public health->Research->Methodology, Evidence-Based Practice, Evidence-Based Medicine. Contributors: Amanda Killoran - Author. Format: Paperback



Medical Book Public Health Evidence



While evidence-based medicine is a well accepted feature in clinical health care, public health interventions are inherently more complex and present both significant challenges and opportunities for advancing this approach. In England, developments include the setting up of the Centre of Public Health Excellence, at the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), with the responsibility for providing evidence and guidelines on the effectiveness of interventions and programmes in priority areas of public health. Further important contributions are also being made by many other research centres and groups. This book presents many of these contributions and provides a state of the art compendium on this subject. Inequality in health is a widespread problem, and the themes discussed here can be used for international comparison and application.Public health evidence examines: international trends in social inequalities in health; the role of evidence in public health policy development and practice; the infrastructure of the UK evidence-based approach; selected examples of how evidence is being applied to reduce health inequalities in England; the methodological challenges involved in evaluating interventions and the synthesis of evidence; and how to take this approach forward. The key message is that tackling health inequalities and implementing the evidence-based approach will require commitment from all those involved; researchers, academics, policy makers, the public and private sector, practitioners, the NHS, and local government. But health inequalities are a common problem facing more developed countries, and the book has international relevance. This timely contribution pushes the boundaries of thinking on research in public health.

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