Evidence-based public health

Are you interested in contributing to HLWIKI International – hlwiki.ca? contact: dean.giustini@ubc.ca To browse other articles on a range of HSL topics, see the A-Z index. Last Update 19 May 2013 Introduction See also Evidence-based health care | Evidence-Based Public Health Literature (EBPH) Review | Grey literature | Open data | Systematic review searching | Top 20 Health Policy Think Tanks "...key components of evidence-based public health include making decisions on the basis of the best available, peer-reviewed evidence, using data and information systems systematically, applying program-planning frameworks, engaging the community in decision making, conducting sound evaluation, and disseminating what is learned...." — Brownson, 2005 Public health professionals are often asked to synthesize the best health evidence in order to formulate health care policies. Evidence-based - or evidence-informed - public health is an extension of evidence-based medicine. All kinds of decisions in health care are made with little or no evidence to guide decision-makers but first the education, health and social policy literature must be thoroughly searched for the availability of previous research studies. This pathfinder or start here is meant to provide a starting point to the hundreds of websites internationally that can be used to begin a search for the grey literature in evidence-informed public health (EIPH). Definition(s) " ...evidence-informed public health (EIPH) is the process of distilling and disseminating the best available evidence (whether from research, practice or experience) and using that evidence to inform and improve public health policy and practice. Put simply, it is finding, using and sharing what works in public health. Other commonly used terms for EIPH include evidence informed decision-making, evidence-based practice or evidence-based health care applied to public health practice and policy... — NCCPH, 2010 In the 21st century, public health decision-makers must evaluate policies and programs based on scientific evidence. The first step in planning policy evaluations is to determine what is known about a topic from existing evidence. Gathering evidence involves systematic literature searching. The literature provides an overview for decision-makers and informs them how policy issues might be addressed. The cumulation of evidence begins with framing research questions in the area, devising a search strategy, gathering information and data, and synthesizing the literature. Creating new intelligence and policy takes time in order to understand and define the issues affecting the programs and populations in question. How new knowledge (or, evidence) is collected and applied has a direct impact on policy-making and health outcomes. Evidence-Informed Public Health. National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools Jenicek M. Epidemiology, evidenced-based medicine, and evidence-based public health. J Epidemiol. 1997 Dec;7(4):187-97. Browse your catalogue by subject heading Health status indicators - Canada Health surveys - Canada Morbidity - Canada Mortality - Canada Public health - Canada Vital statistics - Canada Browse by specific heading Accidents, Traffic - statistics & numerical data - Canada Indigenous peoples - Canada - statistics (LCSH) Cardiovascular diseases - epidemiology - Canada Cardiovascular diseases - mortality - Canada Disabled Persons - statistics & numerical data - Canada Heart Diseases - epidemiology - Canada Heart Diseases - mortality - Canada Indians, North American - statistics & numerical data - Canada Browsing call number areas HA 37...............................General Statistics by country HA154 .............................Statistical data W 74................................Medical Economics and Health Care Costs WA 16.............................Public Health Statistics WA 900............................Medical Statistics WA 110............................Communicable Diseases WA 530............................International Health WB 15.............................Classification of Diseases WS 16.............................Pediatrics statistics In general, recent statistics on specific topics are always listed in the "16 classification section" of NLMC Who needs public health information? a range of policy-makers, consumers, government officials, community organizations, policy organizations, policy analysts voluntary sectors, lobby groups, universities and academics, individuals members of the public, private organizations, to name a few What is policy evaluation? - http://www.nationalschool.gov.uk/policyhub/downloads/Chapter_1.pdf Planning a policy evaluation - http://www.nationalschool.gov.uk/policyhub/downloads/Chapter_2.pdf Who produces public health information? a range of associations, levels of government, policy-makers, community organizations, policy analysts and think-tanks researchers, lobby groups, universities and academics, individuals members of the public, private organizations, to name a few Major educational, health & policy producers Access a wide range of information sources, including abstracts and indexes, full-text journals, electronic books, images, statistics and scientific data by using the relevant links below: 4 stars denotes librarian-selected, high quality information. Starred sites are great places to begin your research. An online or print publication intended to present Canadian information for Canadians See also Health services research & public policy U.S. Public Health 2.0 Creating a Road Map: Local Public Health 2.0 - http://www.lib.umich.edu/creating-road-map-local-public-health-20 Social Media for Public Health - http://www.lib.umich.edu/social-media-public-health A to M producers of evidence-informed public health (EIPH) AcademyHealth - http://www.academyhealth.org HSRProj: Health Services Research Projects - http://www.academyhealth.org/hsrproj Health Services Research (HSR) Methods - http://www.hsrmethods.org/ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) http://www.ahrq.gov American Educational Research Association - http://www.aera.net/ American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research - http://www.aei.org AMICUS - http://amicus.collectionscanada.ca/aaweb/aalogine.htm Australasian Cochrane Centre (ACC) Policy Liaison Initiative - http://www.cochrane.org.au/projects/policy.php Australian Government Education Portal http://www.education.gov.au/goved/go Australian Council for Education Research - http://www.acer.edu.au/ Australian Policy Online (APO) - http://www.apo.org.au/ BCMA Policy Statements & Papers - https://www.bcma.org/publications-media/policy-statements-papers Brookings Institute - http://www.brookings.edu/default.htm California HealthCare Foundation - http://www.chcf.org/ Campbell Collaboration - http://www.campbellcollaboration.org / Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research - https://cahspr.ca/ Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - http://www.policyalternatives.ca/ Canadian Council on Learning - http://www.ccl-cca.ca / Canadian Health Services Research Foundation - http://www.chsrf.ca/ Canadian Institutes for Health Research - http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/193.html Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) - http://www.cpha.ca/en/default.aspx CARL Institutional Repository Search Service / browse select Canadian IRs http://carl-abrc-oai.lib.sfu.ca/ CATO Institute - http://www.cato.org/ CDC Public Health Information Network - http://www.cdc.gov/phin/ CDC Wonder - http://wonder.cdc.gov Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - http://www.cbpp.org/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) - http://www.cms.hhs.gov Cochrane Public Health Group - http://ph.cochrane.org/ Commonwealth Fund - http://www.cmwf.org/ EPPI-Centre database of educational research - http://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/Default.aspx?tabid=185 Eurydice Network http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/education/eurydice/index_en.php Evidence Based Policy in Development Network - http://www.ebpdn.org/ Evidence-Informed Policy Networks (EVIPNet) - http://www.evipnet.org/php/ Fade: The North West Grey Literature Service - http://www.fade.nhs.uk GIDEON (Global Infectious Disease Epidemiology Online Network) - http://web.gideononline.com/web/epidemiology/ GPO Access - http://www.gpoaccess.gov/ Health Policy CyberExchange - Duke University http://www.hpolicy.duke.edu/cyberexchange Higher Education Research Institute - http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri HSRProj (Health Services Research Projects) - http://wwwcf.nlm.nih.gov/hsr_project/home_proj.cfm Institute for Public Policy Research - http://www.ippr.org.uk/ Institute of Medicine (IOM) - http://www.iom.edu Kaiser Family Foundation - http://kff.org/ KUUC - HSRF/CIHR Chair on Knowledge transfer and Innovation http://kuuc.chair.ulaval.ca/english/index.php OpenGrey Repository - http://www.opengrey.eu/ N to Z producers of EIPH National Academies Press - http://www.nap.edu/ National Bureau for Economic Research - http://www.nber.org National Center for Policy Analysis - http://www.ncpa.org National Center for Public Policy & Higher Education - http://www.highereducation.org/ National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools. Registry of Methods and Tools: knowledge translation methods and tools for public health - http://www.nccmt.ca/registry/index-eng.html National Conference of State Legislatures - http://www.ncsl.org National Foundation for Educational Research - http://www.nfer.ac.uk / National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) - http://www.nice.org.uk/ New York Academy of Medicine YouTube videos - http://www.youtube.com/user/lhlguides NLM Health Services Research - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hsrph.html NLM Partners in information access for the public health workforce - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nno/partners.html NTIS - National Technical Information Service is the largest source of government-funded science, technical and medical information; with access to ~3 million publications covering 350 subject areas NLM National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR) - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/ OpenDOAR - Directory of Open Access Repositories - http://www.opendoar.org/ OpenGrey Repository - http://www.opengrey.eu/ PARTNER - a social network analysis tool designed to measure and monitor collaboration between public health departments and their partners - http://partnertool.net/ Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce - http://phpartners.org/ Policy.ca (Canada) - http://policy.ca/ Policy Library is a social, economic and foreign policy resource - http://www.policylibrary.com/ Population Reference Bureau - http://www.prb.org/ Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) - http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/index-eng.php Public Health / Health Administration Section of MLA - http://www.phha.mlanet.org/ Public Health Foundation (PHF) - http://www.phf.org/ Public Health Policy in Canada - http://www.publichealthpolicy.org/ RAND - http://www.rand.org/ RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) EconPapers - http://econpapers.repec.org/ Reports of the Surgeon General (US) - http://sgreports.nlm.nih.gov/NN/ Research4Development (R4D) - http://www.dfid.gov.uk/r4d/AboutR4D.asp Rutgers Center for State Health Policy - http://www.cshp.rutgers.edu/ Scout Internet Project - http://scout.wisc.edu/ Social Sciences Research Network - http://www.ssrn.com / Supporting Policy Relevant Reviews and Trials (SUPPORT) - http://www.support-collaboration.org/ TrainingFinder Real-time Affiliate Integrated Network (TRAIN) - https://www.train.org/DesktopShell.aspx UBC Centre for Health Services & Policy Research (CHSPR) - http://www.chspr.ubc.ca/ * UBC School of Population and Public Health - http://www.spph.ubc.ca/ U.K. Educational Evidence Portal - http://www.eep.ac.uk Urban Institute http://www.urban.org/ U.S. Department of Education http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml UMass Medical School Lamar Soutter Library. Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health - http://library.umassmed.edu/ebpph/ The Wellesley Institute - http://wellesleyinstitute.com/ WHO Health Evidence Network - http://www.euro.who.int/en/what-we-do/data-and-evidence/health-evidence-network-hen World Bank, Working Papers Search - http://lysander.worldbank.catchword.org/vl=77996597/cl=11/nw=1/rpsv/cgi-bin/wpapers WorldCat - http://www.worldcat.org/ Indexes & databases See 189 relevant public health databases Academic Search Complete Biosis® - international life sciences journals and meetings CINAHL - nursing and allied health literature ERIC - http://www.eric.ed.gov/ Free Public Health Databases - http://library.umassmed.edu/ebpph/freephdbs.cfm GIDEON (Global Infectious Disease Epidemiology Online Network) - http://web.gideononline.com/web/epidemiology/ Google scholar - http://scholar.google.com LISA (Library and Information Science Abstracts) Library Literature and Information Science Medline® - http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/Medline PAIS International - Social and public policy PDQ Evidence for Informed Health Policymaking provides access to best evidence for decision-making about health systems Scirus - http://scirus.com Web of Science® - science and social science journals and cited references Other web resources in EIPH Alberta Ambassador - http://www.ihe.ca/research/ambassador-program/ ARIF (Aggressive Research Intelligence Facility) - http://www.arif.bham.ac.uk/ ASERNIP-S (Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Procedures—Surgical) Evidence Essentials. http://www.racs.edu.au/racs/research-and-audit/asernip-s Community Guide - http://www.thecommunityguide.org/index.html Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE) - http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/crdweb/ Effective Health Care Program policymaker summaries - http://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/index.cfm Evidence update - http://www.liv.ac.uk/evidence/evidence.htm EVIPNet (Evidence-Informed Policy Network) - http://www.evipnet.org/php/index.php health-evidence.ca (promoting evidence-informed decision making) - http://www.health-evidence.ca/ Health Evidence Network (HEN) - http://www.euro.who.int/en/what-we-do/data-and-evidence/health-evidence-network-hen HEN Evidence summaries of reports - http://www.euro.who.int/en/what-we-do/data-and-evidence/health-evidence-network-hen/publications/evidence-summaries-of-network-members-reports La Trobe University - Health Knowledge Network bulletins http://www.latrobe.edu.au/chcp/hkn/bulletins.html McMaster Health Forum. http://www.mcmasterhealthforum.org/about_products.php?cat=product Policy Liaison Initiative: Relevant and accessible evidence from Cochrane Library. http://www.cochrane.org.au/ebpnetwork/ Rx for Change database (Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health) - http://www.rxforchange.ca SBU Alert http://www.sbu.se/en/About-SBU/SBU-Alert/ Scottish Health Technologies Group (SHTG) evidence notes - http://www.nhshealthquality.org/nhsqis/6588.html Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) - http://www.scie.org.uk/ SUPPORT: Supporting Policy relevant Reviews and Trials - http://www.support-collaboration.org/index.htm (accessed May 27, 2010). Supporting Translation of Evidence into Policy and Practice - http://www.mrc.ac.za/cochrane/stepp.htm WHO Reproductive Health Library - http://apps.who.int/rhl/en/ Key / high impact journals American Journal of Public Health - http://ajph.aphapublications.org/ Annual Review of Public Health - http://www.annualreviews.org/loi/publhealth BMC Public Health - http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcpublichealth/ Canadian Journal of Public Health - http://journal.cpha.ca/index.php/cjph Canadian Public Policy - http://economics.ca/cpp/en/archive.php Journal of the Medical Library Association - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/93/ Journal of Public Health Management & Practice - Journal of Public Health Management & Practice Journal of Public Health Policy - http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jphp/index.html Public Health Reports - http://www.publichealthreports.org/ Scandinavian Journal of Public Health - http://sjp.sagepub.com/ Other key public health journals Finding systematic reviews in EBPH Centre for Reviews and Dissemination Databases (University of York, UK) – database for systematic reviews, economic evaluations, and health technology assessments Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Cochrane Library - the Cochrane Collaboration is an international non-profit that produces and disseminates systematic reviews of health interventions EPPI-Centre database of educational research http://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/Default.aspx?tabid=185 – searchable databases of reviews related to health promotion and intervention National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), UK – briefing papers developed by the Health Development Agency, UK Evidence Based Health Promotion (Victorian State Government, Department of Human Services, Australia) – current evidence and critical appraisal of public health topics Health Evidence Bulletins Wales (Duthie Library, University of Wales College of Medicine, UK) – documents outlining clinical evidence for several topics Health-Evidence.ca (Canadian Institutes of Health Research) – collection of systematic reviews for topics in health promotion and public health interventions (in French and English) PDQ Evidence for Informed Health Policymaking provides access to best evidence for decision-making about health systems Canadian context Who are the major producers of GL in Canada? What domains are most likely to produce GL, and why? What organization or group is most likely to watch the development of GL? References Bavington B. Core competencies for public health in Canada: an assessment and comparison of determinants of health content. St. Francis Xavier University. National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH), 2012. Cartwright N, Hardie J. Evidence-based policy: a practical guide to doing it better. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Chou WY, Prestin A, Lyons C, Wen KY. Web 2.0 for health promotion: reviewing the current evidence. Am J Public Health. 2012 Nov 15. Evidence-Based Public Health Literature (EBPH) Review Jenicek M. Epidemiology, evidenced-based medicine and evidence-based public health. J Epidemiol. 1997 Dec;7(4):187-97. UK Health Forum. Grey literature in public health: valuable evidence? 8 April 2013.