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2014

Evidence-based public health

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Evidence-Based Public Health: Identifying And Using Information Resources, E. Hatheway Simpson Apr 2014

Evidence-Based Public Health: Identifying And Using Information Resources, E. Hatheway Simpson

E. Hatheway Simpson

Public health evidence-based practice involves using the best available evidence to make informed public health practice decisions. This webinar introduced the concepts of evidence-based public health (EBPH) and provided an overview of resources that are online and freely accessible to the public health workforce. Resources highlighted included evidence-based guidelines, systematic reviews, formulated literature searches, best and promising practices, and additional sources of evidence available from the Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce, PHPartners.org.


Evidence-Based Practice For Public Health Project: Final Report, E. Hatheway Simpson, Elaine R. Martin Apr 2014

Evidence-Based Practice For Public Health Project: Final Report, E. Hatheway Simpson, Elaine R. Martin

E. Hatheway Simpson

There are numerous clinically based models for finding the “best evidence” for the diagnosis and treatment of disease. This process is called evidence-based medicine or EBM, which has been defined as "the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. The practice of evidence-based medicine means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research”.1 The need for improved access to high quality public health information has been echoed in various forums involving public health professionals, librarians, and information specialists since the mid 1990s. …


Public Health Information Access Project: Providing Information Access Through A Digital Library, E. Hatheway Simpson Apr 2014

Public Health Information Access Project: Providing Information Access Through A Digital Library, E. Hatheway Simpson

E. Hatheway Simpson

Presentation on the Public Health Information Access Project, including objectives, description, challenges, and lessons learned.


Evidence-Based Public Health: Findings From A Research Project And Resources For Practice, E. Hatheway Simpson Apr 2014

Evidence-Based Public Health: Findings From A Research Project And Resources For Practice, E. Hatheway Simpson

E. Hatheway Simpson

This presentation to the University of Massachusetts Medical School Preventive Medicine Residency Program presents an introduction to evidence-based public health (EBPH), and overview of the Lamar Soutter Library’s Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health (EBPPH) project and research findings, and selected examples of EBPH information resources available from the project’s website, http://library.umassmed.edu/ebpph.


Providing Evidence-Based Public Health Resources: The Librarian’S Role, E. Hatheway Simpson Apr 2014

Providing Evidence-Based Public Health Resources: The Librarian’S Role, E. Hatheway Simpson

E. Hatheway Simpson

This presentation introduces the concepts of evidence-based public health (EBPH) and provides examples of EBPH information resources available online from the Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health website, http://library.umassmed.edu/ebpph and the Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce website, http://PHPartners.org. Health science librarians, as information specialists and knowledge managers, have the ability to search and find the best evidence to help public health practitioners make informed practice decisions. Presented at the North Atlantic Health Science Libraries Annual Meeting, Providence, RI, September 27, 2005.


Healthy People 2020 Structured Evidence Queries For Pubmed: Practice Informed By Research, E. Hatheway Simpson, Lisa A. Sedlar, Lisa A. Lang Apr 2014

Healthy People 2020 Structured Evidence Queries For Pubmed: Practice Informed By Research, E. Hatheway Simpson, Lisa A. Sedlar, Lisa A. Lang

E. Hatheway Simpson

Objective: Healthy People 2020 is a set of objectives with 10-year targets to guide national health promotion and disease prevention efforts. Public health professionals may have limited time to identify relevant research articles on public health strategies. NLM recognized the need to reduce the time and increase the precision of finding research to support evidence-based actions to achieve HP2020 objectives. Methods: NLM collaborated with the HHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion to develop pre-formulated search strategies ─ structured evidence queries (SEQs) ─ of PubMed to make research evidence related to HP2020 objectives easier to find. The queries were …