prepare and submit a paper on evidence-based health and healthcare. It shall critically discuss and provide some examples of how research has been used to improve population health outcomes.

Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on evidence-based health and healthcare. It shall critically discuss and provide some examples of how research has been used to improve population health outcomes. This paper is being conducted in the hope of enabling a better understanding of evidence-based practice and its application in healthcare.

Evidence-based practice is the “process of systematically finding, appraising, and using contemporaneous clinical and community research findings as the basis for decisions in public health” (University of Michigan, 2005, p.1). The overall concept behind evidence-based practice is on delivering the best intervention for the management of health. In effect, it relies on sifting through evidence, proof of practice, effectiveness, and applying best practices to the healthcare practice. Evidence-based practice also focuses on information literacy which starts with first asking the question and recognizing the need for information. next, by acquiring or locating such information. then by appraising the information or evaluating it. and lastly, by applying and using it effectively (Stanford University, n.d, p. 13). Evidence-based practice is founded on the concept of an educational paradigm which allows the learner to set-up the agenda. It also focuses on applying, not so much on acquiring knowledge. In any case, it does not place much value on authority, instead, it emphasizes the independent review of the evidence (Stanford University, n.d, p. 21). Evidence-based practice is one that very much relies on original researches, summaries, critiques, commentaries, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, guidelines, and comprehensive knowledge bases (University of Michigan, 2005, p. 1). Through such materials, evidence and information is gathered to build the body of evidence for practice.

Through the process of critical research, evidence is refined and made better. As knowledge undergoes the process of refinement – from knowledge creation&nbsp.to knowledge synthesis – it becomes more distilled.