Training the workforce in evidence-based public health: An evaluation of impact among US and international practitioners

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Gibbert, Wesley S ^a   Keating, Shannon M ^b   Jacobs, Julie A ^c,i   Dodson, Elizabeth ^c   Baker, Elizabeth ^d   Diem, Gunter ^e   Giles, Wayne ^f   Gillespie, Kathleen N ^d   Grabauskas, Vilius ^g   Shatchkute, Aushra ^h   Brownson, Ross C ^c  

^a The Prevention Research Center in St Louis   (United States)

^b Health Capital Consultants   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^d SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Vorarlberg Public Health Society   (Australia)

^f CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^g LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

^h WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

ⁱ Washington University in St Louis ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEADERSHIP; PUBLIC HEALTH; STANDARDS; TEACHING; TIME; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; STANDARD;

DATA COLLECTION; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; LEADERSHIP; PUBLIC HEALTH; TEACHING; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84886774963     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5888/pcd10.130120     Document Type: Article

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