Lucie Rychetnik
Criteria for evaluating evidence on public health interventions
University of Sydney
public health interventions tend complex programmatic context dependent evidence effectiveness must sufficiently comprehensive encompass complexity paper asks whether extent evaluative research public health interventions adequately appraised applying well established criteria judging quality evidence clinical practice adduced criteria useful evaluating aspects evidence however important aspects evidence public health interventions covered established criteria evaluation evidence must distinguish fidelity evaluation process detecting success failure intervention success failure intervention moreover intervention unsuccessful evidence help determine whether intervention inherently faulty failure intervention concept theory badly delivered failure implementation furthermore proper interpretation evidence depends upon availability descriptive information intervention context transferability evidence determined study design alone inadequate marker evidence quality public health intervention evaluation