EVIDENCE-BASED PREVENTION IN HEALTH CARE: METHODOLOGIC GROUNDS AND INFORMATION SUPPORT

Abstract

The aim of the study is to ground the concept of evidence-based prevention in health care as a component of health care quality and health maintenance in population. Material and methods. We studied publications of experts in clinical epidemiology/evidence-based medicine, as well as in public health/social medicine and health care and Internet-resources of evidence-based medicine. The analysis and synthesis of expert assessment were carried out. Results. The article presents the historical-and-genesis aspects of evidence-based prevention in health care and systematizes its methodological grounds and special information resources. Conclusion. The evidence-based prevention is considered to be both policy and practice of integration of the best evidence available for experts in health care and associated areas, patients and society in whole; it is an important technology of health maintenance and improvement. Cochrane and Campbell`s systematic reviews and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations are a basis for information support for the evidence-based prevention.