Evidence-Based Public Health

Overview

Evidence-based public health is an approach to improving population health that integrates the best available scientific evidence with practical considerations of context, resources, and community values to design, implement, and evaluate health interventions and policies. It draws on epidemiology, biostatistics, and the social and behavioral sciences to identify health problems, quantify their burden and risk factors, and determine which interventions are most likely to be effective. Core activities include systematic appraisal of research, surveillance and data analysis, prioritization of interventions, and ongoing evaluation to ensure that programs achieve their intended outcomes efficiently and equitably. The aim is to move public health practice away from tradition or assumption and toward decisions grounded in measurable evidence. Research within Human Health Research relevant to this topic includes epidemiological investigation of the prevalence and risk factors of intestinal parasitic helminths among primary school children, which exemplifies the kind of population-level evidence on disease burden and determinants that informs targeted prevention and control programs. Such studies provide the data foundation on which evidence-based interventions are built. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to evidence-based public health, population health assessment, and the use of scientific evidence in health policy and practice.

Research published in this journal

1 peer-reviewed article, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

This page summarises published research for orientation; it is not medical or professional advice.

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