Evidence-based public health is a process that uses
scientific and practical evidence to guide decisions about
how to identify and prioritize the most important health
concerns in a community, as well as develop interventions
to address these priority areas. Interventions come in
many shapes and sizes. An intervention might be a program,
a policy change, an environmental change, a campaign, a
new partnership or a different practice or way of doing
things. What these things all have in common is that they
create change. In public health, these changes are meant
to influence individual behaviours and health as well as
the environments to support those individuals.
QUESTIONS TO ADDRESS (use 2 references for each response)
Examine a population that you have encountered in your
community OR your practice that needs a population-based
intervention.
Construct the intervention you would implement.
How would this intervention create change?
Your intervention must be supported with evidence from
research that demonstrates that it is effective.
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