Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #102377

Holly A. Tutko, MS, NH Institute for Health Policy and Practice, University of New Hampshire, 4 Library Way, Hewitt Hall, Suite 273, Durham, NH 03824, (603) 862-1128, holly.tutko@unh.edu

Myriad factors are fueling the demand for community health practitioners (CHPs) to employ evidence based public health practice (EBPHP) principles. Unfortunately, CHPs have limited time to acquire this knowledge. The e-Roadmap to EBPHP website (www.publichealthsolutions.org) seeks to address this issue by providing real-time, one-stop access to: 1) knowledge and skill-building resources about EBPHP and 2) information about the effectiveness of population-based interventions. The “concepts” section of the website introduces the significance and steps of EBPHP as well as links to resources to learn more. The skill-building section provides links to capacity-building tools to implement the steps of EBPHP. The evidence section describes the classification system used to “grade” evidence quality, a strategy for locating the best quality evidence, and annotated weblinks to reviews, searchable databases, and other evidence sources. To illustrate the value of the e-Roadmap website, a case study investigating what works to increase physical activity among children will be performed. Since released in November 2003, the e-Roadmap has received 12,529 successful website hits, averaging approximately 960 hits per month. Future evaluation plans include examining website userfriendliness and utility.

Learning Objectives: • Use the e-Roadmap to Evidence-Based Public Health Practice (EBPHP) Website to

• learn about what EBPHP is,
• find tools to build your skills to implement EBPHP, and 3)efficiently identify what is (and is not) known about the effectiveness of population-based interventions.

Keywords: Evidence Based Practice, Interventions

Related Web page: www.publichealthsolutions.org

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.