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Evaluating the global ‘Evidence Footprint’: how can evidence better serve the needs of global public health?
Author(s) -
Pang Tikki,
Tharyan Prathap
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of evidence‐based medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.885
H-Index - 22
ISSN - 1756-5391
DOI - 10.1111/j.1756-5391.2009.01016.x
Subject(s) - scope (computer science) , global health , relevance (law) , public health , developing country , business , evidence based practice , systematic review , evidence based medicine , empirical evidence , capacity building , risk analysis (engineering) , medline , political science , medicine , computer science , economic growth , economics , alternative medicine , nursing , philosophy , epistemology , law , programming language , pathology
The Cochrane Collaboration must strive to become a more global organization and help facilitate the use of evidence to improve public health, especially in the developing world. It can do so by improving the scope and relevance of its sytematic reviews, by building capacity in countries to synthesize and use evidence for health policy development, and by addressing the challenge of developing methodologies for dealing with different types of evidence commonly used by health decision‐makers in resource‐ and evidence‐challenged settings.