Evidence and evaluation for health promotion and disease prevention

1. using evidence to guide our decisions about interventions
2. consistently evaluating the effectiveness of interventions in terms of their impact.

Making a decision about what interventions to invest in also requires other types of information such as contextual (e.g. current government plans and budget), data on the nature and size of the problem, and consideration of issues such as impact on health inequalities, feasibility and acceptability to stakeholders. For more information see 'Making decisions about interventions: A guide for evidence-informed policy and practice'.

The information provided on this website aims to support the health promotion and disease prevention workforce to make better use of the evidence and to improve how programs/interventions are evaluated. It aims to do this by:

• providing tools and guidelines
• acting as a repository or link for evidence syntheses and evaluations
• providing links to selected external sources of evidence

For other information and resources related to evaluation for health promotion, visit the Evaluation page.

• Evidence & evaluation tools
  These tools and guidelines will help you to use research evidence, to conduct or commission good quality evaluations and encourage consistent and effective reporting of research evidence. 
• Evidence of intervention effectiveness & cost-effectiveness
  This page includes syntheses of research evidence, including rapid reviews and evidence summaries.  Results of relevant cost-effectiveness studies are also included.
• Selected external sources of evidence
  Provides links to selected external sources of evidence, including systematic reviews and economic evaluations.
• Contact information
  

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