Table of Contents

Preface
Part 1: Ask the question - what is the need for evidence for population health?
1: What is evidence for population health?
2: The population or the individual in public health
3: Shifting the distribution
Part 2: Collect the evidence - what measures should we make?
4: Measuring the population impact
5: Evaluating population-based risks and interventions
6: Getting the outcome measure right
7: Public health informatics: the role of e-science in building the evidence base
Part 3: Understand and use the evidence - how can professionals and the public understand and use evidence to improve population health?
8: Perceptions of risk among policy-makers and the public
9: Managing knowledge for population health
10: Applying evidence to inform public health practice and health policy decision-making
11: Individual or population priorities for population health: involving the public
12: Evidence into action: population impact assessment and the population health decision support

Reviews

The most important value of this work is that it recognizes and clearly defines the difference between clinical evidence-based medicine and evidence-based public health.
*Croatian Medical Journal*