PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - R F Heller
AU  - J Page
TI  - A population perspective to evidence based medicine: “evidence for population health”
AID  - 10.1136/jech.56.1.45
DP  - 2002 Jan 01
TA  - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
PG  - 45--47
VI  - 56
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jech.bmj.com/content/56/1/45.short
4100  - http://jech.bmj.com/content/56/1/45.full
SO  - J Epidemiol Community Health2002 Jan 01; 56
AB  - 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.