A population perspective to evidence based medicine: "evidence for population health"
Open Access
- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- theory and-methods
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
- Vol. 56 (1), 45-47
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.56.1.45
Abstract
We explore the notion that the public health community could learn lessons from the success of evidence based medicine (EBM) and develop a public health counterpart called “Evidence for Population Health”. While EBM focuses on individual patients, its public health counterpart would aim to improve the health of communities effectively and efficiently.Keywords
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