ReviewAnnual review of public health2017
Evaluating the Health Impact of Large-Scale Public Policy Changes: Classical and Novel Approaches.
Review in Annual review of public health, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06528535 (Evaluation of a Health Promotion Intervention on Food Safety in Women During Pregnancy), which is not on this map. Cited by 73 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Evaluation of a Health Promotion Intervention on Food Safety in Women During Pregnancy
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73 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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Abstract
Large-scale public policy changes are often recommended to improve public health. Despite varying widely-from tobacco taxes to poverty-relief programs-such policies present a common dilemma to public health researchers: how to evaluate their health effects when randomized controlled trials are not possible. Here, we review the state of knowledge and experience of public health researchers who rigorously evaluate the health consequences of large-scale public policy changes. We organize our discussion by detailing approaches to address three common challenges of conducting policy evaluations: distinguishing a policy effect from time trends in health outcomes or preexisting differences between policy-affected and -unaffected communities (using difference-in-differences approaches); constructing a comparison population when a policy affects a population for whom a well-matched comparator is not immediately available (using propensity score or synthetic control approaches); and addressing unobserved confounders by utilizing quasi-random variations in policy exposure (using regression discontinuity, instrumental variables, or near-far matching approaches).
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