ReviewThe Milbank quarterly2006
Developing an evidence base for policies and interventions to address health inequalities: the analysis of "public health regimes".
Review in The Milbank quarterly, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The use of research evidence in public health decision making processes: systematic review.PloS one · 2011Pooled it
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- Characteristics of the sources, evaluation, and grading of the certainty of evidence in systematic reviews in public health: A methodological study.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Framing action to reduce health inequalities: what is argued for through use of the 'upstream-downstream' metaphor?Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2022Review
- Big Data for Sound Policies: Toward Evidence-Informed Hearing Health Policies.American journal of audiology · 2018Article
- The Developing Role of Evidence-Based Environmental Health: Perceptions, Experiences, and Understandings From the Front Line.SAGE open · 2015Article
- An evidence-based public health approach to climate change adaptation.Environmental health perspectives · 2014Review
- A serial qualitative interview study of infant feeding experiences: idealism meets realism.BMJ open · 2012Article
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- Community-based knowledge translation: unexplored opportunities.Implementation science : IS · 2011Article
- Implementation of antiretroviral therapy adherence interventions: a realist synthesis of evidence.Journal of advanced nursing · 2010Review
- The scientific basis for law as a public health tool.American journal of public health · 2009Article
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Abstract
Systematic reviews have become an important methodology in the United Kingdom by which research informs health policy, and their use now extends beyond evidence-based medicine to evidence-based public health and, particularly, health inequalities policies. This article reviews the limitations of systematic reviews as stand-alone tools for this purpose and suggests a complementary approach to make better use of the evidence. That is, systematic reviews and other sources of evidence should be incorporated into a wider analytical framework, the public health regime (defined here as the specific legislative, social, political, and economic structures that have an impact on both public health and the appropriateness and effectiveness of public health interventions adopted). At the national level this approach would facilitate analysis at all levels of the policy framework, countering the current focus on individual interventions. It could also differentiate at the international level between those policies and interventions that are effective in different contexts and are therefore potentially generalizable and those that depend on particular conditions for success.
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