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ReviewAnnual review of public health2018

Building Capacity for Evidence-Based Public Health: Reconciling the Pulls of Practice and the Push of Research.

Ross C Brownson, Jonathan E Fielding, Lawrence W Green

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Review in Annual review of public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 188 papers, 11 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

188 citing papers in PubMed, 11 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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128 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ross C BrownsonPrevention Research Center in St. Louis, Brown School; Department of Surgery and Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA; email: rbrownson@wustl.edu.
Jonathan E FieldingFielding School of Public Health and Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA; email: jfieldin@ucla.edu.
Lawrence W GreenDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, California 94127, USA; email: lwgreen@comcast.net.

Funding

Disseminating Evidence-Based Interventions to Control CancerR01CA160327 · NCI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI BROWNSON, ROSS C · 2012 to 2017
$2.8M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA160327
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Timely implementation of principles of evidence-based public health (EBPH) is critical for bridging the gap between discovery of new knowledge and its application. Public health organizations need sufficient capacity (the availability of resources, structures, and workforce to plan, deliver, and evaluate the preventive dose of an evidence-based intervention) to move science to practice. We review principles of EBPH, the importance of capacity building to advance evidence-based approaches, promising approaches for capacity building, and future areas for research and practice. Although there is general agreement among practitioners and scientists on the importance of EBPH, there is less clarity on the definition of evidence, how to find it, and how, when, and where to use it. Capacity for EBPH is needed among both individuals and organizations. Capacity can be strengthened via training, use of tools, technical assistance, assessment and feedback, peer networking, and incentives. Modest investments in EBPH capacity building will foster more effective public health practice.

Indexed as

Implementation SciencePublic HealthCapacity BuildingEvidence-Based PracticeHumansPublic Health PracticeResearchcapacity buildingcontextevidence-based interventionsexternal validityimplementationpractice-based evidence

Identifiers

PMID29166243
PMCPMC5972383

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