The Need for Evidence-Based Public Health

Brownson, Ross C.; Baker, Elizabeth A.; Leet, Terry; Gillespie, Kathleen N.; True, William R.

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“…In the development of educational program content more generally, face validity and intuition have tended to trump empiricism, leading to communications that seem compelling to their creators but fail to achieve their desired goals (5). Recent calls for evidence-based strategies in public health may be well applied to educational program content, including the development of narratives (27).…”

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Prescriptive scientific narratives for communicating usable science

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2014

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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In this paper I describe how a narrative approach to science communication may help audiences to more fully understand how science is relevant to their own lives and behaviors. The use of prescriptive scientific narrative can help to overcome challenges specific to scientific concepts, especially the need to reconsider long-held beliefs in the face of new empirical findings. Narrative can captivate the audience, driving anticipation for plot resolution, thus becoming a self-motivating vehicle for information delivery. This quality gives narrative considerable power to explain complex phenomena and causal processes, and to create and reinforce memory traces for better recall and application over time. Because of the inherent properties of narrative communication, their creators have a special responsibility to ensure even-handedness in selection and presentation of the scientific evidence. The recent transformation in communication and information technology has brought about new platforms for delivering content, particularly through interactivity, which can use structured self-tailoring to help individuals most efficiently get exactly the content that they need. As with all educational efforts, prescriptive scientific narratives must be evaluated systematically to determine whether they have the desired effects in improving understanding and changing behavior.decision making | adolescents | interactive video

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Prescriptive scientific narratives for communicating usable science

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2014

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…Context refers to the often-difficult-to-measure characteristics of the agency, community, sociocultural, and political/economic surroundings in which an intervention is to be implemented or evaluated (3,28). These contextual variables may be important moderators of an intervention effect, yet too often they are ignored or not reported (8).…”

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Commentary: Generating Rigorous Evidence for Public Health: The Need for New Thinking to Improve Research and Practice

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2014

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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This commentary describes the concept of evidence-based public health, including the limitations of evidence. Increased attention to evidence may have numerous benefits for public health practice, including access to higherquality information on what works, a higher likelihood of successful programs and policies being implemented, greater workforce productivity, and more efficient use of resources. To broaden thinking on the sources and scope of evidence, the three reviews in this symposium seek to (a) compare and contrast several evaluation designs that are alternatives to the randomized controlled trial; (b) describe two research approaches that are useful in addressing complex, multilevel public health issues (i.e., mixed methods research and mixed studies reviews); and (c) provide an overview of the value and approaches for generating practice-based evidence. These reviews highlight the complexity and interrelatedness of public health challenges, limitations of researcher-driven, quantitative approaches, and the need to broaden our current concepts of evidence.

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“…They are of interest because they might have critical clinical utility. Prodigiosins and synthetic derivatives have been shown to have main and specific immunosuppressive activity, with novel targets clearly distinct from other drugs [6]. Many possible mechanisms are suggested attributed to prodigiosins as pH modulators, cell cycle inhibitors, DNA cleavage agents and mitogen activated protein kinase regulators [7].…”

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Betterment the production of prodigiosin that was produced from Serratia marcescen by means mutations.

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Serratia marcescens was exposed to mutation for becoming better the production of prodigiosin (quantitatively and qualitatively) and examined it as antibacterial activities. One isolate of S.marcescen (Wild) was exposed to different kinds of antibiotics (Gentamycin 10µg/ml) to produce mutant isolates from S.marcescen and examined to produce prodigiosin. The isolate that produce the largest amount of prodigiosin among four isolates was used for more studies. Staphyllococcus Baciilus, E.coli, and Pseudomonas were exposed to prodigiosin for testing inhibiting activity of it against these bacterial strains.

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The Need for Evidence-Based Public Health

Cited by 70 publications

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Prescriptive scientific narratives for communicating usable science

Prescriptive scientific narratives for communicating usable science

Commentary: Generating Rigorous Evidence for Public Health: The Need for New Thinking to Improve Research and Practice

Betterment the production of prodigiosin that was produced from Serratia marcescen by means mutations.

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