So let's kick the discussion off with an overview of how evidence is used in public health, with this video I made. The video is boring, dull, and not very nice - in fact it'd almost make a good introductory lecture for future students in that regard! However, despite the poor production quality and presentation style, I've think that I've covered how evidence is applied in public health practice to a satisfactory level.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_psJ52fPiws
The NHMRC guidelines of course can't guide all applications of health work (nor should it for that matter), but it's certainly of importance in matters of health protection where you want to design strategies to reduce the burden of disease on a population overtime, or in identifying and responding to areas of interest that have a particular public health concern, that kind of thing. Certainly things like nutritional guidelines. I'm really surprised by how many people don't think that those guidelines are evidence-based: they are literally based on nothing except evidence - and overviews, and literature reviews, and other published critical analyses of the available evidence, as well as considering professional opinion amongst the relevant experts (i.e. dieticians, and those actively involved in researching and publishing evidence). Of course the example I give in my video is much easier to give an overview of existing evidence than something as complicated as that, and hopefully serves as a good example of how evidence can be applied directly from those NHMRC guidelines to guide clinical practise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_psJ52fPiws
The NHMRC guidelines of course can't guide all applications of health work (nor should it for that matter), but it's certainly of importance in matters of health protection where you want to design strategies to reduce the burden of disease on a population overtime, or in identifying and responding to areas of interest that have a particular public health concern, that kind of thing. Certainly things like nutritional guidelines. I'm really surprised by how many people don't think that those guidelines are evidence-based: they are literally based on nothing except evidence - and overviews, and literature reviews, and other published critical analyses of the available evidence, as well as considering professional opinion amongst the relevant experts (i.e. dieticians, and those actively involved in researching and publishing evidence). Of course the example I give in my video is much easier to give an overview of existing evidence than something as complicated as that, and hopefully serves as a good example of how evidence can be applied directly from those NHMRC guidelines to guide clinical practise.
For Religion & Health see:[/b][/size] Williams & Sternthal. (2007). Spirituality, religion and health: Evidence and research directions. Med. J. Aust., 186(10), S47-S50. -LINK
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
