TY - JOUR T1 - A population perspective to evidence based medicine: “evidence for population health” JF - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health JO - J Epidemiol Community Health SP - 45 LP - 47 DO - 10.1136/jech.56.1.45 VL - 56 IS - 1 AU - R F Heller AU - J Page Y1 - 2002/01/01 UR - http://jech.bmj.com/content/56/1/45.abstract N2 - 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. ER -