Understanding What Works: Lessons for the Nordic Countries?

APL in the Nordic Countries

After serving one year in the army, he transferred to the Royal Canadian Air Force and served as a flight engineer specializing in reconnaissance. During his service, he took advantage of the Canadian Legion's offer of correspondence education and almost finished high school. He enjoyed teaching his service mates mathematics, and when he left the service it was with a promise to his counsellors...

Evaluation in the Nordic Countries

Evaluation in the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden varies substantially with regard to how well developed it is, as well as in the extent to which it is used. However, in all these countries evaluation has been developed within the public sector, whereas evaluation as a separate field of research and study hardly exists. This is to some extent changing with the establishm...

Getting evidence into practice: what works in developing countries?

PURPOSE We summarize and comment on the available literature on the effectiveness of interventions designed to change professional behaviour in order to bring evidence into practice in developing countries. DATA SOURCES We used a strategy adapted from the Effective Practice & Organization Care (EPOC) Cochrane group. STUDY SELECTION Forty-four studies met pre-defined selection criteria. Cont...

What works, and what really works.

In recent development discourse, much has been debated and written about evidence-based actions, defined as: ‘the application of the best available systematically assembled evidence in setting policy and practice’. Nutrition is clearly not exempt from justifying itself, and it is important that Public Health Nutrition has addressed this in recent issues. Much of our knowledge of ‘what works’ de...

Prevention of viral hepatitis in Germany and the Nordic Countries: lessons learnt and the way forward