{"id":1731,"date":"2008-10-17T11:46:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T11:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:44:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:44:03","slug":"we-need-better-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1731","title":{"rendered":"We Need Better Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If public health research does not progress beyond descriptive research to testing the effectiveness of interventions that can provide causal data, its contribution to evidence-based practice will not be realized. This paper examined the number and percentage of public health research publications over three time periods (1987\u20131988, 1997\u20131998, 2005\u20132006) for three preventive health issues: tobacco use, alcohol use, and inadequate physical activity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajpm-online.net\/article\/S0749-3797(08)00610-7\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If public health research does not progress beyond descriptive research to testing the effectiveness of interventions that can provide causal data, its contribution to evidence-based practice will not be realized. This paper examined the number and percentage of public health research publications over three time periods (1987\u20131988, 1997\u20131998, 2005\u20132006) for three preventive health issues: tobacco [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5208,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions\/5208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}