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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access published online on January 27, 2008
The European Journal of Public Health, doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckm127
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

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Evidence synthesis, upstream determinants and health inequalities: the role of a proposed new Cochrane Public Health Review Group

Elizabeth Waters1, Mark Petticrew2, Naomi Priest1, Alison Weightman3, Angela Harden4 and Jodie Doyle1

1 Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health Field, The McCaughey Centre, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne
2 Public and Environmental Health Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK
3 Support Unit for Research Evidence (SURE), Sir Herbert Duthie Library, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XN, UK
4 Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, London, WC1H 0NR, UK

Correspondence: Prof. Elizabeth Waters, Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health Field, and Public Health and Health Equity, The McCaughey Centre, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia, tel: 61-3-8344-3183, fax: 61-3-9348-2832 e-mail: ewaters@unimelb.edu.au

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   Introduction
 
Within public health decision making, there has been an increasing awareness of the need for better syntheses of evidence related to interventions addressing upstream, population-level determinants of health and health inequalities. This includes focusing greater attention on ways of integrating evidence from a range of sources and on best ways of using what evidence is currently available, while remaining aware of its limitations.1 Inherent within this is the need to consider further the contribution and value of multiple forms of evidence to the evidence base rather than a stringent focus on ranking evidence by more traditional scientific measures. Whilst we would argue that well-conducted experimental studies provide strong evidence on intervention effectiveness it is not always possible to carry out such studies when evaluating complex public health . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Public health developments in the Cochrane Collaboration
 

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