Development of public health guidance on the prevention of alcohol misuse and cardiovascular disease: the work of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, England.
In 2005, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in England was asked to extend its work from clinical practice to public health. It has since produced 35 pieces of public health guidance on interventions ranging from the specific (such as the use of pedometers to promote exercise) to major public health issues (such as behaviour change and community engagement). The workshop agreed that research on many public health interventions was lacking, particularly for population-level interventions, which might be more powerful than those targeted at individuals. Epidemiology could make a particular contribution to the evaluation of natural experiments, which have great potential for contributing to this evidence base.
MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK. Electronic address: catherine.law@ucl.ac.uk.
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Centre for Public Health Excellence, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, London, UK.
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Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK.
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Section of Public Health, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
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Department of Public Health and Policy, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
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D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000517:prevention & control*; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000517:prevention & control; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004493:Education; D004739:England; D004813:Epidemiology / Q000639:trends; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health / Q000639:trends*