Using Evidence in Health Promotion and Public Health

Using Evidence in Health Promotion
And Public Health
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................3
BACKGROUND............................................................................................3
SEARCH STRATEGY..................................................................................4
SIMPLE APPRAISAL OF ARTICLE.............................................................5
CONCLUSION.............................................................................................7
REFERENCES.............................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
Mental health can be referred as the behavioural, cognitive and emotional
wellbeing. It is about the way individuals feel, think and behave. Mental health can
influence daily life of an individual along with physical health. Conditions like anxiety,
depression, stress etc. influence mental health and disrupt the routine of an individual.
This is an essay report which discusses a search for evidence for question, "Is
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy effective in treating anxiety disorder in youths?”. This
essay discusses about evidence based public health, significance of literature review on
topic and search strategy developed for literature review question. Apart from this,
appraisal of a chosen article is included and a brief conclusion is provided in the project.
BACKGROUND
Information literacy is referred as the ability to identify, evaluate, organize,
utilize and communicate data or information in all its different formats, specifically in the
situations leading problem solving, decision making and acquisition of knowledge. This
is the mixture of critical thinking skills, communication skills, computer technology skills
and research skills. For getting success in academic area, participation in society as
knowledgeable individual and effective functioning with workplace, information literacy is
crucial. It helps an individual in becoming discerning, confident and sophisticated
researcher. It enables individual to develop and implement effective research strategy,
interpret results accurately, evaluate the quality, relevance, credibility and
authoritativeness of retrieved information an access and utilize it legally and ethically.
Evidence based public health is referred as the formulation, execution and
evaluation of effective policies and practices in public health by implementing principles
of scientific reasoning involving systematic utilization of information systems and data
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