This week's featured review

The effect of helmets on the risk of head and neck injuries among skiers and snowboarders: A meta-analysis

Working Together Toward Evidence-Informed Public Health in Canada: Turning Research into Action

Health Evidence will be hosting 90 minute webinars in four topic areas. We will help you interpret the research evidence, and present key messages and implications for practice. Register HERE!

Reproductive Health: View webinar recording HERE
Social Determinants of Health:
View November 24th webinar recording HERE
View December 8th webinar recording HERE
Child/Family Health:
View February 2 webinar recording HERE
Chronic Disease Prevention:
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 1:00pm EST FULL
Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 1:00pm EST REGISTER

Maureen Dobbins, Scientific Director of Health Evidence, will be leading the webinars. We have limited each webinar to 100 participants to enable an interactive session. An online discussion forum will follow the webinars to answer and discuss additional comments. Following each webinar we will post the recordings to our site. If you have any questions, please email info@health-evidence.ca.

Evidence-Informed Decision Making Workshop

One-week intensive course at McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario, April 30 – May 4, 2012

• Advance your skills in critical appraisal of research literature


• Learn strategies for implementing evidence-informed decisions


• Small and large group sessions led by faculty at McMaster


• Tutorial groups for health professionals working in public health, as well as nurses, advanced practice nurses, administrators, managers, and policymakers who wish to use evidence-informed decision making in their various disciplines

View the workshop brochure and registration form.

For more information contact Jennifer Yost.

Information & Evidence on Community Water Fluoridation

Be ready to share what the evidence says – Peel Public Health has already systematically searched for and compiled the evidence on community water fluoridation. Click here for a copy of their Community Water Fluoridation Briefing Binder (12 MB, 657 pages). Thanks to Peel Public Health for sharing!

For Health Evidence’s assessment of fluoridation information, click here.

For the presentation of these findings by Dr. David Mowat, Peel Public Health’s Medical Officer of Health, watch the April 28, 2011 Region of Peel Council meeting (his presentation begins at 3hr, 11min in the recording).

Health Evidence Discussion Forum

Health Evidence is excited to launch our DISCUSSION FORUM! Share information, questions, and comments on various public health topic areas with Health Evidence staff and fellow public health colleagues. You can access the discussion forum on the navigation bar between Additional Resources and Contact Us. Login with your health-evidence username and password or register if you aren’t a user.

Additional resources on health-evidence.ca

Go to Additional Resources > Evidence-Informed Recommendations for Reducing Breast Cancer Risk for recommendations, developed with the guidance of an expert panel, summarizing the currently available evidence about breast cancer prevention for the public health setting in Canada.


Go to Additional Resources > Evidence Related to Chronic Disease Prevention for links to reviews evaluating the effectiveness of interventions for chronic disease prevention. Reviews are categorized by: disease, audience, setting, or intervention strategy.


Go to Additional Resources > Tools to Support Evidence-Informed Decision Making for downloadable & modifiable tools to help you use research evidence in decision making and help your public health organization document and share lessons learned.