Providing Evidence-Based Public Health Resources: The Librarian’s Role

This presentation introduces the concepts of evidence-based public health (EBPH) and provides examples of EBPH information resources available online from the Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health website, http://library.umassmed.edu/ebpph and the Partners in Information Access for the Public He...

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Main Author: Simpson, E. Hatheway
Format: Conference Object
Language:English
Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.13028/3g7x-aj23
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/36258
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1071&context=lib_articles&unstamped=1
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/lib_articles/70
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Summary:This presentation introduces the concepts of evidence-based public health (EBPH) and provides examples of EBPH information resources available online from the Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health website, http://library.umassmed.edu/ebpph and the Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce website, http://PHPartners.org. Health science librarians, as information specialists and knowledge managers, have the ability to search and find the best evidence to help public health practitioners make informed practice decisions. Presented at the North Atlantic Health Science Libraries Annual Meeting, Providence, RI, September 27, 2005.