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March 2006, Vol 96, No. 3 | American Journal of Public Health 406-409
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.066035

COMMENTARY

Public Health Asks of Systems Science: To Advance Our Evidence-Based Practice, Can You Help Us Get More Practice-Based Evidence?

Lawrence W. Green, DrPH

At the time of preparing this article, Lawrence W. Green was with the University of Maryland, College Park, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Lawrence W. Green, DrPH, UCSF CCC Population Sciences, Box 0981, San Francisco, CA 94143–0981 (e-mail: lwgreen{at}comcast.net).

Public health asks of systems science, as it did of sociology 40 years ago, that it help us unravel the complexity of causal forces in our varied populations and the ecologically layered community and societal circumstances of public health practice.

We seek a more evidence-based public health practice, but too much of our evidence comes from artificially controlled research that does not fit the realities of practice.

What can we learn from our experience with sociology in the past that might guide us in drawing effectively on systems science?




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