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The European Journal of Public Health 2007 17(Supplement 1):8-9; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckm060
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

Commentary on SPHERE (Strengthening Public Health Research in Europe) literature reviews

William Dab

Health and Safety Department, Cnam, Paris.

Correspondence: Professor William Dab, Health and Safety Department, Cnam, Paris, tel: + 33 1 40 27 25 65, fax: + 33 1 40 27 23 12, e-mail: William.dab@cnam.fr

Received May 12, 2007, accepted May 24, 2007

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The work presented here is very instructive for public health professionals, researchers and decision makers. It is a kind of meta-research that provides data regarding the vitality of this field in Europe.

More than 200 000 articles have been identified in this project. That gives an idea of the importance of the efforts devoted to public health research. It is encouraging to note that this scientific production has been increasing during the last decade and, overall, Europe should not be ashamed of its accomplishment. At the same time, this work raises the issues facing public health policymakers when they wish to promote an evidence-based approach. How to identify true knowledge in this huge amount of data? How to organize the systematic surveillance and synthesis of these results and to disseminate it in a timely way to the relevant policymakers? These . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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