If we want more evidence-based practice, we need more practice-based evidence.*

Public Health Headlines

California exhumes Dept of Public Health after 30 years. Calif Healthline 7/25/07.

Swedish analysis shows harm reduction benefit of snus for former smokers. Lancet 6/16/07

Diabetes rates 1988-2005 up >50% for over 65 and 18-44 age groups. MMWR 6/15/07.

US last in comparison of 6 nations' health care systems, first in prevention. Brit. Med. Jour. 5/26/07

Exposure to secondhand smoke worldwide, ages 13-15. MMWR, 5/25/07.

Evidence that aspirin works to prevent colon cancer. Lancet, 5/12/07.

TV food advertisements double children's intake. Science Daily, 4/28/07.

No reduction in occupational injuries since 1996. MMWR, 4/27/07.

 

IOM panel urges junk food ban in schools. National Academies Press, 4/25/07.

 

Federal ad campaign to get patients to ask more questions. AHRQ, 3/7/07.

 

Indonesia to sell flu viruses, not give them to WHO. New York Times, 2/7/07.

 

6 States Rate "A" on Obesity Report Card. Univ of Baltimore, 1/30/07

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Women >40 mammogram use declined after 1990s increases. MMWR,1/26/07.

 

Homicides linked to states with more guns. New York Times, 1/23/07. Soc Sci & Med. Feb '07.

 

Fast food more accessible than healthful fare in California. Calif Health Policy Advocacy Inst. study, Policy Brief, 1/19/07.

 

Chlorine exposure & increased risk of bladder cancer. Am J Epidemiology 165(2), 1/07.

 

Cancer deaths drop for 2nd straight year. ACS, 1/18/07.

 

Nearly 20-fold increase in bariatric surgeries in 55-64 age group between 1998 and 2004. Reuters, 1/11/07.

 

For past milestones by topic, see chapters of Community &  Population Health , and search on previous headlines (1999-2006 chronology).

 

 

 

 

 

 

A resource for instructors, students, health practitioners, and researchers using:

The PRECEDE-PROCEED model for health program planning and evaluation

Community and Population Health, 8th Edition textbook

Health Program Planning, An Educational and Ecological Approach, 4th Ed. textbook. See new Preface, references, endnotes, and graphics for 4th edition, 2005 (now available from McGraw-Hill, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble).

The Guidelines for Participatory Research

The Measure of Patient Adherence to Medical Regimens

The Manual for Measurement of Socioeconomic Status in Health Studies

Click on book covers below for details about each                             

What's New in this website and beyond?

Video and slide presentation on practice-based research and closing the gap between research and practice. Lecture at McGill University, Montreal, Oct 24, 2006. And at University of Waterloo on occasion of Honorary Doctor of Science degree, Waterloo, Ontario, Oct 21, 2006 (slides only; video to be posted later). Also as keynote at CDC's Prevention Research Centers annual meeting, March 13, 2007 (transcript, slides).

*Click here (and scroll to p. 15) for our perspective on the banner quotation concerning practice-based evidence, which expresses the theme of this website. On the issue of generalizability of research,  go to Amer J Health Behavior article.

      実践 ヘルスプロモーションJapanese Translation

 

       

New: Endnotes for PRECEDE-PROCEED, 4th ed.  New issues of journals, books, and other new information: What's New. For a blog on science to practice issues.

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 Last Updated on 8/5/2007

This Site was launched in 1999 at the University of British Columbia with the assistance of Chris Wyatt, and updated through the summer of 2003 with the assistance of Xanthia Berry, Graduate Research Assistant, Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health. In late 2003 LWGreen@comcast.net began attempting to adapt and maintain the site without such competent assistance, and moved its home to San Francisco in September 2004.