Evidence-based public health: more than a platitude
Sorting through the stream of often-conflicting public reports in medical journals and weighing the credibility of advice from "experts" challenges public health policy-makers. Fortunately, there are agreed rules and procedures defining what are considered "evidence-based" recommendations both for individual medical practicioners and public health policy-makers.
The Spring issue of Salt and Health newsletter examines the important questions about quality of evidence and concludes that evidence-based public health is more than a platitude.