Learning Objectives and Supported Competencies

Overview

It is important in decision-making, policy development, and the establishment of new programs to improve public health that these initiatives be supported by scientific evidence. Evidence-based practice is based on evaluation research that highlights interventions that have been found to be effective. This module covers the emerging area of evidence-based public health. It provides an opportunity to gain a comprehensive overview of concepts in best evidence, to understand distinctions between evidence-based medicine and evidence-based public health, to explore resources that provide evidence-based practice information, and to develop techniques for searching and finding research to support best evidence in the field of public health.