This book explores the complex relationship between public health research and policy, employing tobacco control and health inequalities in the UK as contrasting case studies. It argues that focusing on research-informed ideas usefully draws attention to the centrality of values, politics and advocacy for public health debates.
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The authors deal not only with finding and using scientific evidence, but also with implementation and evaluation of interventions that generate new evidence on effectiveness.
The second point of similarity is that the aims of the initiatives set up in nursing mirror those of wider, evidence-based health ... (4) Prepare easy-to-read summaries of best practice in the form of practice information sheets, ...
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In this book, Jeanne Daly traces the origins, essential features, and achievements of evidence-based medicine and clinical epidemiology over the past few decades.
Examples are used throughout the book to help readers link the concepts to practice. The book concludes with suggestions on how to develop a values-based approach in practice and through professional education.
Judy Robson, Sen. Carol Roessler, Rep. Melissa Sargent, Rep. Penny Bernard Schaber, Rep. Donna Seidel, Rep. Gary Sherman, Rep. Pat Strachota, Rep. Susan Vergeront, Rep. Daniel Vrakas, Rep. Joan Wade, Rep. Mandy Wright, and Rep.
Policies and interventions to improve population health and well-being and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) should be informed by high-quality research evidence, including evidence derived from locally conducted research ...
The book concludes with a four-pronged action agenda. This book is intended to help train the next generation of professionals about how to better collaborate with policymakers who enact and implement policy.
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