Book chapter
Commentary: Generating Rigorous Evidence for Public Health: The Need for New Thinking to Improve Research and Practice
Annual review of public health, pp 1-7
01 Jan 2014
PMID: 24328987
Featured in Collection : UN Sustainable Development Goals @ Drexel
Abstract
This commentary describes the concept of evidence-based public health, including the limitations of evidence. Increased attention to evidence may have numerous benefits for public health practice, including access to higher-quality information on what works, a higher likelihood of successful programs and policies being implemented, greater workforce productivity, and more efficient use of resources. To broaden thinking on the sources and scope of evidence, the three reviews in this symposium seek to (a) compare and contrast several evaluation designs that are alternatives to the randomized controlled trial; (b) describe two research approaches that are useful in addressing complex, multilevel public health issues (i.e., mixed methods research and mixed studies reviews); and (c) provide an overview of the value and approaches for generating practice-based evidence. These reviews highlight the complexity and interrelatedness of public health challenges, limitations of researcher-driven, quantitative approaches, and the need to broaden our current concepts of evidence.
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- Title
- Commentary: Generating Rigorous Evidence for Public Health: The Need for New Thinking to Improve Research and Practice
- Creators
- Ross C. Brownson - Prevention Research Center in St. Louis, Brown School.Ana V. Diez Roux - University of MichiganKatherine Swartz - Harvard University
- Contributors
- J E Fielding (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Annual review of public health, pp 1-7
- Series
- Annual Review of Public Health
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews; PALO ALTO
- Number of pages
- 7
- Grant note
- P30 DK092950 / NIDDK NIH HHS; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) P30DK092950 / NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Urban Health Collaborative; Drexel University
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000336207500002
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84897042749
- Other Identifier
- 991020112180904721
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Public, Environmental & Occupational Health