Evidence for Health

Anne Andermann is the Medical Specialist in Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Health Canada's Quebec Regional Office, a Public Health Physician at the Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay Northern Quebec, Chair of the Community Oriented Primary Care Committee at St Mary's Hospital, Chair of Public Health for the new undergraduate medical curriculum at McGill Medical School, and Founding Director of the CLEAR Collaboration which is developing practical and evidence-based tools to help frontline health workers address the underlying social causes of poor health. Dr Andermann has previously worked on research capacity strengthening for low- and middle-income countries at the World Health Organization in Geneva where she was also a member of the WHO Research Ethics Review Committee and a main contributing author of the World Health Report 2008 on increasing universal access to primary health care. Dr Andermann has taught undergraduate and graduate level courses on using evidence to improve the health of populations in the USA (Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs, Princeton University), Brazil (Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia) and Germany (Berlin School of Public Health, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin). Dr Andermann was recently awarded the Canadian Rising Stars in Global Health award from Grand Challenges Canada. Her main areas of interest are public health, primary health care, global health, aboriginal health, immigrant and refugee health, social determinants of health, health equity, health promotion, screening, research capacity strengthening, evidence-informed decision-making, health policy, knowledge translation and public health ethics.

Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; About the author; 1. Introduction; 2. Strategies for improving health; 3. Understanding how decisions influence health; 4. Producing evidence to inform health decisions; 5. Facilitators and barriers to using evidence; 6. Making evidence-informed decisions; 7. Conclusion; Index.