Beyond RCTs in public health policy research: "who's the fairest of them all?''

作者：Naumova Elena N^*

来源：Journal of Public Health Policy, 2017, 38(2): 216-220.

DOI：10.1057/s41271-016-0062-8

• RCTs (randomized controlled trials)
• community-based interventions
• hierarchies of evidence
• participatory action research
• dynamic simulation modeling
• positive deviance approach

The article in this issue by O'Donnell et al stimulated my attention to the methods beyond randomized controlled trials that can help assess public health research and rank its utility in hierarchies of evidence. The future of public health policy research will surely combine computational power and the power of human ingenuity.

• 出版日期2017-5