Evidence-Based Global Health
The link indicated below will take U of M students faculty, and staff to a just published editorial in the June 2 copy of JAMA.
"The effectiveness of many interventions to improve health in poor populations in the developing world remains untested and therefore unproven. It is sometimes assumed that what works is known and that the only challenge is to make interventions widely available to underserved populations worldwide, the so-called know-do gap. However, other than vaccination, few global health interventions are evidence-based.
Evidence-based global health requires use of the evidence from randomized controlled trials and other scientifically valid studies to evaluate global health interventions and to measure progress in improving global health."
Full Article: http://tc.liblink.umn.edu/sfx_local?id=Entrez:PubMed&id=pmid:15173158