Health Promotion and Public Health

Health Promotion and Public Health

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Background..................................................................................................................................1
Search Strategy............................................................................................................................2
Simple Appraisal of Article.........................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Health promotion are used by the health care organization to make people aware of the
different health related issues that are affecting their personal life and health and reduce their
efficiency. For the health care organization like National Health Services are concerned with the
health standards local citizens of country (Sharma, 2018). The main objectives of this
organization is to keep the people of country healthy and free form the diseases and health
issues. There are different things will be mentioned in report that can help the organization to
improve health standards of country. The concept of information literacy will be explained in the
report. Evidence based public health will be studied in report along with knowledge of literature
review. Various search strategies that used in searching article will be analysed in the report to
make proper judgement. The simple appraisal of article will be provided in the report to
understand how whole process was completed.
Background
Information Literacy
The concept of information literacy is known as ability to find out, evaluate,
communicate and use in different formats in various situations where decision making, problem
soling and knowledge acquisition is required (Baum, 2016). This also can be consider as ability
of the individual person to evaluate and analyse what kind of information is required to solve
particular condition. Ability of information literacy can help the people to gather effective
information to solve different issues and problems. Some other benefits of information literacy
are- it helps to find out relevant information in the process. It improves the quality of information
that is used in the particular situation and it also helps to avoid the plagiarism in the research
work. This is how information literacy can help the researcher and students to maintain the
quality of work and education with in different processes.
Evidence based Public Health
The evidence based public health can be considered as the process or practices that are
used by the health care officials and health care organization to develop, implement and analyse
the effectiveness of programs and policies in public health by using principle of scientific
reasoning, systematic uses of data and information system (Lindström, 2018). There are
different decisions are used by the health care organization to improve the implementation of
different policies that can help them to improve goal conversion rate for particular movement.
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