Evidence Informed Practice
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"Towards Evidence-Informed Practice (TEIP)"
Training Workshops
Making Evidence Work For You: Tools to strengthen health promotion programs, November 2008
This workshop was designed to build capacity in the application and generation of evidence, in order to strengthen health promotion programs and support decision-making. It provided the tools to plan, assess and enhance initiatives; and search, evaluate and apply relevant evidence to programs. Workshop material available in PDF:
- Supporting Evidence-Informed Practice in Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention
- New Ontario Public Health Standards: Making Connections to Evidence
- Making Evidence Work FOR You! Tools to Strengthen Health Promotion Program
- Using TEIP Tools
- Program Assessment Process
- Bringing Health to Work: Workplace Wellness
Best Practices 101 Workshop, May 2005
Reports and Documents
Best Practice Dissemination Project
This paper and dissemination model was developed to support the uptake or use of the Best and Promising practice material available to practitioners in heart health in Ontario. The paper was commissioned to better understand how the dissemination process associated with these “best practices” could be enhanced across the Ontario Heart Health Communities and Canada wide, such that more communities implement the programs. Specific examples are taken from Diabetes prevention.
Full report
Diagrammatic framework
International Best Practice Documents Part I and II
In 1998, working with an advisory group from the HHRC, the University of Waterloo, Department of Health Studies and Gerontology and the Health Behaviour Research Group identified criteria to assess behavioural programs and used these criteria to assess heart health programs from other parts of the world working in heart health. These documents are a catalogue of programs that met the criteria set for best practice in heart health, including effectiveness, plausibility and practicality (refer to the documents for in-depth explanations). In addition, programs had to address multiple risk factors in heart health, such as physical inactivity, nutrition and tobacco use. Where programs had not been evaluated but are still plausible and practical, these programs were categorized as ‘promising practices’.
Evidence-Informed Practices Compendium in Chronicle Disease Prevention
This searchable database assists practitioners with the review and selection of interventions for local implementation. There are 87 Type 2 Diabetes, Stroke and Cardiovascular Disease prevention interventions in the database. They have all been recommended by academics or practitioners as being 'Best' or 'Promising" Practices.