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International Journal for Quality in Health Care 15:443-444 (2003)
© 2003 International Society for Quality in Health Care

Book review

Evidence-Based Public Health

Ross C. Brownson, Elizabeth A. Baker, Terry L. Leet, and Kathleen N. Gillespie

Oxford University Press, Inc., New York, 2003
0-19-514376-0; 235 pp; $39.95

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There is a growing demand to use scientific reasoning approaches to support informed decisions concerning public health issues and policy development, and to provide rational and effective public health programs in society.

Evidence-based approaches have been adopted in medicine to improve the care for individual patients. Evidence-based public health utilizes the current best available evidence to make decisions in the public health service, and also to develop action plans, public health programs, and policies for addressing public health issues. This is starting to have an impact on improving public health services.

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Shu-Chiung Chou

Center for Quality of Care Research and Education, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA


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