Additional Resources
Evidence Related to Chronic Disease Programming in Public Health
This page contains links to searches for reviews on health-evidence.ca related to the prevention of chronic diseases, published from 1985 to the present. The reviews focus on the effectiveness of interventions in public health and the list offers the option to see the reviews categorized by disease, audience, setting, or intervention strategy.
The National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools (NCCMT) and health-evidence.ca have been receiving requests for evidence to support public health units to prepare for their upcoming planning cycle. In particular, many requests have been received with respect to planning for chronic disease programs. In order to support access to evidence that has been assessed for quality and facilitate decision making for health units, the NCCMT and health-evidence.ca have partnered to provide searches relevant to chronic disease focused literature.
Systematic reviews offer a synthesis of primary study evidence in a particular area, bypassing the need to search for and review individual studies. A well-done systematic review will provide a comprehensive overview of the research literature. This resource focuses on reviews that evaluate the impact of public health specific to chronic disease.
To create this resource, searches were conducted in health-evidence.ca to identify reviews related to chronic disease prevention. All reviews in health-evidence.ca have been assessed for methodological quality, and those assessed as being of strong or moderate methodological quality were included in the results. Searches were conducted with the awareness that program planning across health units varies and may potentially be organized on the basis of:
By clicking on one of the categories above, you will be linked to a page with a list of sub-group searches within a program planning area.
By clicking on a specific sub-group search, e.g., Age group - Adolescents (13-19), you will be connected to the most current reviews related to that sub-group – in this example adolescents. Users can then click on one or more full review titles to see the full reference and abstract.
Where available, a link to the full text document is located below the abstract under “Related Links”. Not all reviews are available in full text due to copyright restrictions and the inability of health-evidence.ca to fund access to all full-text reviews. If you or your institution has a journal or database subscription (e.g., Cochrane Library through OVID), IP authentication is provided and you will be able to directly link to some full reviews, based on your subscription(s). Where available you will also have access to a short summary of the review written by heatlh-evidence.ca. These summaries highlight the policy and practice implications of the review findings.
As new reviews are assessed for quality and posted to health-evidence.ca, clicking on the links in this resource will provide updated search results.
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