workshop on vhl and hen, sao paulo, 10-11 april 2006 access to evidence hen - sources of evidence...
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6Access to evidence
HEN - sources of evidence
Collection of health and health- related information resources in support to
policymaking in the European Region
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6Objective
Facilitate access to:
1. information on scale, magnitude and causes of health problems
2. information on the effectiveness of interventions
3. information on the implementation of an intervention, context, barriers and faults, reaction of main stakeholders, etc.
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6What can readers find?
• Presents European and international organizations and agencies– producers of evidence– have expertise in formulating evidence-
based policies
• Their information products• HEN web site contains 44 entries
– 16 international agencies– 7 databases– 21 national agencies – 770 information products
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6Information products available
• Health technology reports• Regular health reports• Results of surveillance studies• Guidelines• Best practices collections• Training publications • Recommendations• Case studies• Project evaluations• Databases: bibliographic, factual, legislative, etc• Journals/periodical publications• Strategies and action plans in the field of public
health• Network of experts
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6Criteria for inclusion of documents
• Relevance and usefulness to policy makers in European region
• Selected publications of global focus but relevant for European region’s health profile and context
• Documents released after year 2000 (with some exceptions)
• Excluded: meeting reports, press release and information for general population
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6Presentation of information
• Documents summarized in 50 words• Direct link to document and year of
publication• Health topics assigned to facilitate
search (based on WHO/HQ library list, comprises mainly MeSH terms)
• Expert lists: field of competences, contact details
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6Criteria for inclusion of web sites
Web sites must• Be functional at all times• Contain resources relevant for health
policy making in European region• Be regularly updated • Use at least one of the WHO/EURO’s
official languages (E,F,G,R)• Provide free access to their abstracts,
executive summaries or full text publications
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6Update of
HEN - sources of evidence
• Regularly once or twice a year• Meets policy makers’ needs and current
public health concerns in European region
• Checked against technical errors and dysfunctions (links are also tested)
• Check on the health topics assigned to the documents
• Avoid duplications
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