Document Summary
Fundamental concepts for public health practice: evidence-based public health. Evidence-based public health (ebph) can be defined as an approach to incorporating scientific research pieces of evidence and practices to improve the health status of a given population. Its key concepts involve developing, implementing and evaluating effective programs and policies in public health scientifically with the aid of sound evaluation processes, program-planning frameworks, data and information systems, decision-making processes, and disseminating what is learnedi. They are aimed at improving the care of a patient by utilizing the best current available scientific pieces of evidence for decision making. Besides, they have action plans, policies, and public health programs that address public health issues. These processes eliminate error-prone instantaneous decision demands, unevaluated past experiences, subjective opinions, and politics in healthcareii. Ebph analytic tools have some similarities and differences many on their implementation processes. Besides, they both use data and information that is aimed at improving the overall public health care practice.
