Evidence-Based Public Health

The preface of this book, which aims to describe how to implement evidence based public health interventions, sets high expectations. In it Jonathan Fielding, director of public health for the county of Los Angeles, states: “If every public health practitioner absorbed and applied the key lessons from this volume, public health would enjoy a higher return on the tax payer's investment. ![][1] Ross C Brownson, Elizabeth A Baker, Terry L Leet, Kathleen N Gillespie Oxford University Press, £29.50, pp 235 ISBN 0 … [1]: /embed/graphic-1.gif