title: A population perspective to evidence based medicine: "evidence for population health".
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.
authors.affiliation: Evidence for Population Health Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, School of Medicine, The University of Manchester, UK. Dick.Heller@man.ac.uk
authors.forename: R F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Heller
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Page
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D015980:Public Health Practice / Q000592:standards*; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom