NEWS
RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 12, 2006
Contact: Dick Hanneman
703/549-4648
e-mail: dick@saltinstitute.org
Evidence-based public health: more than a platitude
Alexandria, VA (May 12)…. “Evidence-based public health is more than a platitude” and should be based on more than “plausible theories,” declares the Salt Institute in its latest quarterly e-newsletter, Salt & Health.
Sound evidence builds the credibility of public health recommendations for such things as improving the diet, but this “trust is jolted when each day’s headlines announce another refutation of time-honored treatments, another medication or medical devices withdrawn from the market or another long-held dietary recommendation disputed loudly among the experts,” opines the Institute.
The solution, the Institute suggests is that “public health agencies and individual physicians need to become more objectively rooted in the science” using “a credible process of selecting and analyzing scientific findings such as the “evidence-based” rules developed by the international Cochrane Collaboration.
The Institute extols the “EMB approach” and contrasts “evidence-based” public health decisions with recommendations voted upon by meetings of subject matter experts.
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