Chapter 1 - Evidence-based Public Health

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• Provision of safe water and food
• Sewage treatment and disposal
• Tobacco use prevention and cessation
• Control of infectious diseases through immunization, etc.

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Public Health Achievement

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EBPH means applying the principles of evidence-based medicine (EBM) to the field of public health

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Evidence-Based Public Health (EBPH)

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Randomized clinical trials

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What is the gold standard in Evidence-based medicine (EBM)?

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Can be defined as a process of integrating evidence from scientific research and practice to improve the health of the target population

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Defining Evidence-Based Public Health

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• Access to more and higher quality information on what works
• A higher likelihood of successful programs and policies being implemented
• Greater workforce productivity, and more efficient use of public and private resources

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Benefits of EBPH include:

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• Political environmental (including lack of political will)
• Deficits in relevant and timely research, information systems, resources, leadership, organizational culture
• Inability to connect research to policy

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Barriers to implementing EBPH

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• epidemiologic data
• results of program or policy evaluations
• qualitative data

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These data are used to make judgement or decisions

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• Absence of evidence
• Lack of conceptual framework regarding how much evidence is sufficient to judge and evaluate our policy decisions

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the most critical problem for EBPH id the:

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causes of disease/ health issue
- magnitude
- severity
Risk factors (preventable)

Based on the evidence, something should be done

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Type 1 Evidence

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are the examples of effective interventions? what works?

Based on what works, this should be done

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type 2 evidence

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what works for whom? In what context was the intervention implemented? How was it received?

How should the intervention be implemented?

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type 3 evidence

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• public health practitioners
• policymakers
• stakeholders
• researchers

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Audiences for EBPH

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1. Assess Needs
2. Develop a program implementation & Evaluation Plan
3. Implement Program Plan Track Fidelity Track Process
4. Evaluate Outcomes & Impact
5. Share the Results

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Overview: The Program Planning, Implementation and Evaluation Cycle