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Providing Evidence-Based Public Health Resources: The Librarian's Role

Providing Evidence-Based Public Health Resources: The Librarian's Role. Elaine Martin Hathy Simpson Nancy Peterson NAHSL September 27, 2005. Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Project http://library.umassmed.edu/ebpph.

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Providing Evidence-Based Public Health Resources: The Librarian's Role

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  1. Providing Evidence-Based Public Health Resources:The Librarian's Role Elaine Martin Hathy Simpson Nancy Peterson NAHSL September 27, 2005

  2. Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Projecthttp://library.umassmed.edu/ebpph Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce Projecthttp://PHPartners.org

  3. Evidence-Based + Public Health • The conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about • the care of communities and populations in the domain of health protection, disease prevention, health maintenance and improvement. Source: Jenicek M. Epidemiology, evidenced-based medicine, and evidence-based public health. J Epidemiol. Dec 1997;7(4):187-197.

  4. Epidemiologists Statisticians Environmental Engineers Animal Control Officers Sanitarians Food Scientists Industrial Hygienists Health Care Administrators Health Economists Politicians Social Workers Mental Health Workers Substance Abuse Counselors Doctors Nurses Teachers Disaster Relief Workers Nutritionists Lab Technicians Librarians The Public Health Workforce

  5. Evidence-Based Public Health Best Evidence from Research Social values, Politics, Economics $ Expertise, Knowledge • Decisions for Public Health Practice • Interventions • Programs • Policies

  6. Evidence-Based Public Health Process • Define the public health problem. • Search and find the best evidence. • Critically appraise the evidence for validity and relevance. • Apply the evidence to practice. • Evaluate the results. • Adopted from: • Source: Sackett DL, Rosenberg WM. The need for evidence-based medicine. J R Soc Med. Nov 1995;88(11):620-624. • Sibbald WJ. Some opinions on the future of evidence-based medicine. Crit Care Clin. 1998;14(3):549-558.

  7. 1. Define the public health problem Convert the information needs into answerable questions

  8. Forming a Searchable Public Health QuestionPICO P - Population I - Intervention C - Comparison O - Outcome

  9. 2. Search and find the best evidence 3. Critically appraise the evidence for validity and relevance

  10. Evidence-Based Resources for Public Health Practice • Evidence-Based Guidelines • Systematic Reviews • Pre-formulated & Filtered Searches • Best & Model Practices • Public Health Bibliographic Databases • Public Health Journals Project Web Site:http://library.umassmed.edu/ebpph

  11. Evidence-Based Guidelineshttp://www.thecommunityguide.org

  12. Tobacco Use Prevention & Control

  13. Link to Full-Text Article from the American Journal of Preventive Medicine

  14. Systematic Reviewshttp://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/cochrane/activities/reviews.htm

  15. Cochrane Systematic Review Search strategy Databases including the Cochrane Injuries Group Specialised Register, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, IRRD (International Road Research Documentation), TRANSDOC, TRIS (Transport Research Information Service), ATRI, Science Citation Index were searched for relevant articles. Web sites of traffic and road accident research bodies including government agencies were also searched. Reference lists from topic reviews, identified studies and bibliographies were examined for relevant articles.

  16. Systemic Reviews http://heath-evidence.ca

  17. Pre-formulated PubMed Searcheshttp://phpartners.org/hp

  18. Healthy People 2010 Information Access Projecthttp://phpartners.org/hp

  19. Model Practices Database http://archive.naccho.org/modelPractices

  20. Examples of Public Health Bibliographic Databases Available by Subscription Only: • CINAHL • EconLit • EMBASE • PsycINFO • Science Citation Index • Social Science Citation Index • Sociological Abstracts

  21. Free Online Public Health Databases

  22. Public Health Journals

  23. Environmental Health Journals

  24. Free Online Public Health Journal

  25. Additional Public Health Information Sources • Grey literature • News • Listservs • Government reports • Statistics • Meeting abstracts • Organization websites

  26. Public Health Web Portal: http://PHPartners.org Public Health News Resources Governments Reports & Grey Literature Health Statistics Conferences & Meetings

  27. PHPartners.org: Discussion & Email Lists

  28. Public Health Web Portal: http://PHPartners.org

  29. Public Health Web Portal: http://PHPartners.org

  30. PHPartners.org: Online Public Health Tutorial

  31. New England Public Health Resourceshttp://nnlm.gov/ner/publichealth.html New England Public Health Agencies, Associations & Statistical Information

  32. Contact Information Hathy Simpson, MPH Public Health Project Coordinator e.hatheway.simpson@umassmed.edu 508-856-3594

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