Ethics, Evaluation and Evidence-Based Practice

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This chapter demonstrates that evaluation is a crucial component to developing evidence-based practice, but highlights ethical tensions concerning the evaluation process. The measures adopted to evaluating success in health promotion interventions are discussed with some ethical issues surrounding the use of long-term outcomes (such as life expectancy) as a useful measure for some health promotion programmes considered. The application of randomised control trials (RCTs) in health promotion evaluation is highlighted as a highly valid research design; however, the ethical concerns about its application in complex community programmes are demonstrated. Finally, accessing evidence as an ethical concern is highlighted and how this can be overcome through developments in open access publishing.

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