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Evidence-Based Public Health Journal Club

Bibliography

This journal club ran from June - November 2002.

** articles are freely available on the web

June

** Forsetlund L, Bjorndal A. The potential for research-based information in public health: identifying unrecognised information needs. BMC Public Health 2001, 1(1) Free from http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/1/1

Glasziou P, Longbottom H. Evidence-based public health practice. Aust N Z J Public Health 1999 Aug;23(4): 436-40. [ PubMed Link ]

July

Eriksson C. Learning and knowledge-production for public health: a review of approaches to evidence-based public health. Scand J Public Health 2000;28:298-308. [ PubMed Link ]

Dever GEA. Evidence-Based Public Health Practice. Chapter 4. In Improving outcomes in public health practice: strategy and methods. Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen, 1997.

August

[**] Rychetnik L, Frommer M, Hawe P, Shiell A. Criteria for evaluating evidence on public health interventions. J Epidemiol Community Health 2002;56:119-127. [Free from http://jech.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/56/2/119]

[**] McQueen DV. The evidence debate [editorial]. J Epidemiol Community Health 2002; 56:83-84. [Free from http://jech.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/56/2/83]

September

** Briss PA et al. Developing an evidence-based Guide to Community Preventive Services--methods. The Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Am J Prev Med. 2000 Jan;18(1 Suppl):35-43. Free from http://www.thecommunityguide.org/methods/default.htm [Ed. note: Updated link 3/17/04].

Beahler CC, Sundheim JJ, Trapp NI. Information retrieval in systematic reviews: challenges in the public health arena. Am J Prev Med 2000;18(4S):6-10. [ PubMed Link ]

October

[**] Heller RF, Page J. A population perspective to evidence based medicine: “evidence for population health.” J Epidemiol Community Health 2002;56:45-47. [Free from http://jech.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/56/1/45]

[**] Dickersin K. Systematic reviews in epidemiology: why are we so far behind? Int J Epidemiol. 2002; 31:6-12. [Free from http://ije.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/full/31/1/6]

November

[**] Weaver N, Williams JL, Weightman AL, Kitcher HN, et al. Taking STOX: developing a cross disciplinary methodology for systematic reviews of research on the built environment and the health of the public. J Epidemiol Community Health 2002;56:48-55. [Free from http://jech.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/56/1/48]

One reading on the Campbell Collaboration

**Boruch R, Petrosino A, Chalmers I. The Campbell Collaboration: a proposal for systematic, multi-national, and continuous reviews of evidence. PDF version
**Petrosino AJ, Boruch RF, Rounding C, McDonald S, Chalmers I. A Social, Psychological, Educational & Criminological Trials Register (SPECTR) to facilitate the preparation and maintenance of systematic reviews of social and educational interventions. PDF version

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