Public Health Evidence

• SECTION 1: TOWARDS EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY AND PRACTICE: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES ; 1. Patterns and trends in inequalities in health: an international phenomenon ; 2. The development of an evidence based approach to tackling health inequalities in England ; 3. Social determinants and public health policy in the UK ; SECTION 2: SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES FOR DEVELOPING AN EVIDENCE-BASED APPROACH TO TACKLING HEALTH INEQUALITIES ; 4. Building the evidence base - the contribution of the Department of Health's Policy Research Programme (England) ; 5. The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) ; 6. The Cochrane Collaboration ; 7. Accumulating evidence to bring policy, practice and research together ; 8. The Centre for Evidence-based Public Health Policy: part of the ESRC Evidence Network ; 9. What Works for Children? ; 10. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ; 11. Health Evidence Bulletins Wales ; 12. Evidence, policy and practice - developing collaborative approaches in Scotland ; SECTION 3: CONCEPTS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATION AND SYNTHESIS OF THE EVIDENCE: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES ; 13. Simple Principles for the Evaluation of Complex Programmes ; 14. Systematic or Unsystematic, is that the question? Some reflections on the science, art and politics of reviewing research evidence ; 15. Research synthesis for tackling health inequalities: lessons from methods developed within systematic reviews with a focus on marginalised groups ; 16. Evidence from qualitative and quantitative research ; 17. Evidence for public health practice: conceptual and methodological challenges ; 18. What evidence do we have on implementation? ; 19. The Bayesian approach to decision making ; SECTION 4: PUTTING EVIDENCE INTO POLICY AND PRACTICE: EXAMPLES AND LESSONS ; 20. Teenage pregnancy policy and practice: the application of evidence ; 21. Smoking cessation: an evidence-based approach to tackling health inequalities? ; 22. Ethnicity ; 23. Tackling health inequalities at the community level: Neighbourhood Renewal and the New Deal for Communities ; 24. Healthy Living Centres ; 25. Health Action Zones ; 26. Evidence into practice for service improvement in health care: experience from the NHS Modernisation Agency ; SECTION 5: DEVELOPMENTS AND EXPERIENCES INTERNATIONALLY ; 27. Public policies and inequalities and health - challenges and lessons from Finland ; 28. Sweden ; 29. Assessing and Addressing Health Inequalities: The Canadian Experience ; 30. An evidence based approach to public health and tackling health inequalities in Ireland and Northern Ireland ; SECTION 6: THE FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES ; 31. Bringing about social change-implications for health ; 32. Tackling health inequalities: improving the health of poor groups, narrowing health gaps and reducing health gradients ; 33. Mapping the life world: a future research priority for public health

Although we have a wealth of information about evidence-based practice in healthcare very little has been written about evidence-based public health to date. This year has seen the emergence of the first texts along thsee lines and one would hope that they will encourage the principles of evidence-based practice to filter into public health practice....[recommended] to individuals working in applied public health settings, particularly newcomers to the field, researchers, and students on public health courses.