Public health work needs new evaluation models. Primary care projects are more effective than large scale campaigns
Weinehall, L.; Janlert, U.; Asplund, K.; Wall, S.
Lakartidningen 95(36): 3812-3816
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-7205 PMID: 9766143 Document Number: 488556
The need both of critical assessment of community intervention programmes and of alternatives to randomised controlled studies is discussed in the article. Examples are drawn from a review recently completed for the Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care [Statens Beredning för Utvärdering av medicinsk metodik (SBU)], and from the evaluation of a cardiovascular disease prevention programme currently in progress in northern Sweden.