Evidências científicas no campo da saúde coletiva: da pergunta à formulção de estratégia de busca / Scientific evidence in the field of collective health: from the question to the formultion of search strategy
Auxiliar os leitores a identificar a produção cientifica de forma atualizada e proveniente de diversas fontes de informação.
Métodos:
Diante da diversidade de fontes de evidências científicas e suas especificidades técnicas, foram descritas as considerações básicas para planejamento e condução de buscas estruturadas.
A obtenção sistematizada e explícita das evidências para responder a perguntas em saúde coletiva é uma prática que necessita ser estimulada para melhor embasar decisões de políticas, sistemas e serviços de saúde(AU)
Introduction:
The increasing technical and scientific production in public health over the years requires from professionals and managersthe hability to find evidence that is useful for health care services systems and its practices.
Considering the diversity of scientific evidence sources and their technical specificities, basic considerations for planning and conducting structured searches were described.
Results:
A list of strategic data bases was presented for the Public Health field and a detailed guide was described to the reader of how to carry out structured searches in Pubmed and the Virtual Health Library (BVS).
Conclusion:
A systematized and explicit was obtained from the evidence in order to answer questions concerning public health is a practice that needs to be stimulated to better inform health caredecision makers, systems and services(AU)