title: Evidence-based public health practice: improving the quality and quantity of the evidence.
abstract: Evidence-based practice in public health has moved from being a complex cousin of evidence-based medicine to a field that is seeking to establish how evidence-based principles can apply to public health approaches. The Cochrane Collaboration Health Promotion and Public Health field offers public health practitioners the opportunity to be involved in these developments, and/or to employ the array of relevant systematic reviews in their practice.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Community Child Health, University of Melbourne, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic. 3052, Australia. waterse@cryptic.rch.unimelb.edu.au
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Waters
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Doyle
mesh_terms: D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D015980:Public Health Practice; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D006113:United Kingdom