SECTION 1: TOWARDS EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY AND PRACTICE: CHALLENGES
AND OPPORTUNITIES
1: Mel Bartley, Martin Bobak, Michael Marmot: Patterns and trends
in inequalities in health: an international phenomenon
2: Michael Kelly: The development of an evidence based approach to
tackling health inequalities in England
3: Hilary Graham: Social determinants and public health policy in
the UK
SECTION 2: SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES FOR DEVELOPING AN EVIDENCE-BASED
APPROACH TO TACKLING HEALTH INEQUALITIES
4: Christine McGuire: Building the evidence base - the contribution
of the Department of Health's Policy Research Programme
(England)
5: Amanda Sowden, Julie Glanville: The Centre for Reviews and
Dissemination (CRD)
6: Mike Clarke: The Cochrane Collaboration
7: Sandy Oliver, James Thomas, Angela Harden, Ann Oakley:
Accumulating evidence to bring policy, practice and research
together
8: M Petticrew, M Whitehead, C Bambra, M Egan, H Graham, S
MacIntyre, E McDermott: The Centre for Evidence-based Public Health
Policy: part of the ESRC Evidence Network
9: Kristin Liabo, Sarah Frost, Di McNeish, Helen Roberts, Trevor
Sheldon: What Works for Children?
10: Peter Littlejohns: The National Institute for Health and
Clinical Excellence
11: Alison Weightman, E Coyle: Health Evidence Bulletins Wales
12: Erica Wimbush, H Harper, D Wright, L Gruer, L Lowther, J
Gordon, S Fraser: Evidence, policy and practice - developing
collaborative approaches in Scotland
SECTION 3: CONCEPTS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATION AND SYNTHESIS OF THE
EVIDENCE: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
13: Ray Pawson: Simple Principles for the Evaluation of Complex
Programmes
14: Martyn Hammersley: Systematic or Unsystematic, is that the
question? Some reflections on the science, art and politics of
reviewing research evidence
15: Sandy Oliver, James Thomas, Angela Harden, Jonathan Shepherd,
Ann Oakley: Research synthesis for tackling health inequalities:
lessons from methods developed within systematic reviews with a
focus on marginalised groups
16: Mary Dixon-Woods: Evidence from qualitative and quantitative
research
17: Catherine Swann, Bhash Naidoo, Michael P Kelly: Evidence for
public health practice: conceptual and methodological
challenges
18: Helen Roberts, Lisa Arai, Katrina Roen, Jennie Popay: What
evidence do we have on implementation?
19: Jack Dowie: The Bayesian approach to decision making
SECTION 4: PUTTING EVIDENCE INTO POLICY AND PRACTICE: EXAMPLES AND
LESSONS
20: Catherine Dennison, Geraldine McCormick: Teenage pregnancy
policy and practice: the application of evidence
21: Amanda Killoran, Lesley Owen, Linda Bauld: Smoking cessation:
an evidence-based approach to tackling health inequalities?
22: Mark Johnson: Ethnicity
23: Jean Peters, Elizabeth Goyder: Tackling health inequalities at
the community level: Neighbourhood Renewal and the New Deal for
Communities
24: Dione Hill, Elliott Stern: Healthy Living Centres
25: Michaela Benzeval: Health Action Zones
26: Diane Ketley, Rose Gollop: Evidence into practice for service
improvement in health care: experience from the NHS Modernisation
Agency
SECTION 5: DEVELOPMENTS AND EXPERIENCES INTERNATIONALLY
27: Meri Koivusalo: Public policies and inequalities and health -
challenges and lessons from Finland
28: Bernt Lundgren, Sven Andréasson, Sven Bremberg, Carina
Källestål, Paul Nordgren, Liselotte Schäfer Elinder, Eva Wallin:
Sweden
29: John Frank, Cam Mustard, Jim Dunn, Nancy Ross, Ericia Di
Ruggiero: Assessing and Addressing Health Inequalities: The
Canadian Experience
30: Lesley Boydell, Jane Wilde: An evidence based approach to
public health and tackling health inequalities in Ireland and
Northern Ireland
SECTION 6: THE FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
31: Phil Hanlon: Bringing about social change-implications for
health
32: Hilary Graham: Tackling health inequalities: improving the
health of poor groups, narrowing health gaps and reducing health
gradients
33: Michael P Kelly: Mapping the life world: a future research
priority for public health
Although we have a wealth of information about evidence-based practice in healthcare very little has been written about evidence-based public health to date. This year has seen the emergence of the first texts along thsee lines and one would hope that they will encourage the principles of evidence-based practice to filter into public health practice...[recommended] to individuals working in applied public health settings, particularly newcomers to the field, researchers, and students on public health courses. Critical Public Health ...this book provides a useful picture of the current level of development of evidence-based public health policy and practice, and specifically action to address health inequalities in the UK. It has a practical 'real life' focus and will be of interest primarily to academics and public health practitioners based in the UK. ...Overall, cause for optimism isprovided with some significant advances being made in public health research methods and creative ideas about future directions being displayed. s
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