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Impact Factor for Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews rises again - to 6.186.
The CDSR is now ranked in the top 10 of the 151 in the Medicine, General & Internal category
Updated review of relevance **Interventions for preventing obesity in children**
This updated review was authored by core staff of the Cochrane Public Health Group and was published on The Cochrane Library on 8 December, 2011. Read the published review here.
Rio Political Declaration on Social Determinants of Health, reaffirms the need for robust evidence to measure intervention effects on health equity and to use such information to inform policy and action across all sectors.
Exerpt: "...We pledge to:
(i) Establish, strengthen and maintain monitoring systems that provide disaggregated data to assess inequities in health outcomes as well as in allocations and use of resources;
(ii) Develop and implement robust, evidence-based, reliable measures of societal well-being, building where possible on existing indicators, standards and programmes and across the social gradient, that go beyond economic growth;
(iii) To promote research on the relationships between social determinants and health equity outcomes with a particular focus on evaluation of effectiveness of interventions;
(iv) Systematically share relevant evidence and trends among different sectors to inform policy and action;
(v) Improve access to the results of monitoring and research for all sectors in society;
(vi) Assess the impacts of policies on health and other societal goals, and take these into account in policy-making;..."
World Conference on Social Determinants of Health, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, October 21, 2011. Available online at bit.ly/q5anfm http://t.co/i5PE90sG
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