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J Epidemiol Community Health 2002;56:45-47 doi:10.1136/jech.56.1.45
  • Theory and methods

A population perspective to evidence based medicine: “evidence for population health”

  1. R F Heller1,
  2. J Page2
  1. 1Evidence for Population Health Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, School of Medicine, The University of Manchester
  2. 2Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, The University of Newcastle, New South Wales 2308, Australia
  1. Correspondence to:
 Professor R F Heller, Evidence for Population Health Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, School of Medicine, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK;
 Dick.Heller{at}man.ac.uk
  • Accepted 21 June 2001

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.

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