Book Review Evidence-Based Public Health, Second Edition

Ross Brownson et al. have completed a new edition of their book entitled, Evidence-Based Public Health, a text designed for students and practitioners in the fields of public health, preventive medicine, and public policy. The main purpose of this second edition, and also their original book published in 2003, is to introduce readers to the concepts and practice of evidence-based public health (1). The au-thors make a strong argument for following a step-by-step process in designing and implementing public health pro-grams that involves careful examination of and contribution to the evidence base. The authors compellingly contrast the dearth of evidence regarding impacts of public health interventions and the short-age of well-designed studies to measure intervention effects with the more robust field of evidence-based medicine (2)