This area of CoRE gives details of websites which contain information helpful in the evaluation of public health programmes. Please see below for an overview of the resources available at each site.

NHS Health Scotland

NHS Health Scotland is Scotland's health improvement agency. The Policy, Evaluation and Appraisal team provides public health information, advice and expertise that will help NHS Health Scotland teams and their partners improve health and reduce inequalities. This site provides a wide range of resources to support evaluation including reports of national health improvement programme evaluations, policy reviews, a database of local evaluation reports and examples of logic models.

http://www.healthscotland.com/understanding/evaluation/index.aspx

US Centre for Disease Control (CDC) Evaluation Working Group Resources

This site, sponsored by CDC, is intended for any evaluator involved in public health, or public health practitioners wanting to learn about evaluation. It offers a large number of links to other sites and publications in the following categories: ethics, principles, and standards; organisations, societies, foundations, associations; journals and online publications; step-by-step manuals; logic model resources; planning and performance improvement tools; and reports and publications.

http://www.cdc.gov/eval/resources.htm

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)

This NICE clinical guideline (CG43) covers the prevention, identification, assessment and management of overweight and obesity in adults and children. As with other NICE guidelines, it is based on the best available evidence.

http://www.nice.org.uk/CG43

UK Clinical Research Collaboration (CRC) Public Health Centres of Excellence:

Five centres of excellence have been established across the UK to strengthen research into complex public health issues such as obesity, smoking and health inequalities. The five centres pool experts from a range of disciplines working with practitioners, policymakers and stakeholders to tackle public health issues that are likely to have a significant impact on the health of the nation. The five centres of excellence are:

• Fuse: Centre for Translational Research in Public Health, led by Newcastle University in collaboration with Durham, Northumbria, Sunderland and Teesside Universities directed by Professor Martin White. The Fuse research programme has two main themes relevant to the obesity agenda: Health Improvement, which includes the effect of life change transitions on diet and physical activity, and Knowledge to Action, which focuses on getting research evidence into practice, including the commissioning and planning of public health programmes.
  http://www.fuse.ac.uk
• DECIPHer: Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health ImpRovement, Cardiff University in collaboration with Swansea University and Bristol University directed by Professor Laurence Moore
  http://www.decipher.uk.net/
• Northern Ireland Centre of Excellence for Public Health, Queens University Belfast in partnership with the Institute of Public Health in Ireland directed by Professor Frank Kee
  http://coe.qub.ac.uk/
• CEDAR: Centre for Diet and Activity Research. Partnership between University of Cambridge, University of East Anglia and Medical Research Council Units of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Human Nutrition Research. Directed by Professor Nick Wareham.
  http://www.cedar.iph.cam.ac.uk/
• UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies, University of Nottingham, a strategic partnership between seven of the leading tobacco control and policy research groups in the UK directed by Professor John Britton
  http://www.ukctcs.org/

Social and Public Health Sciences Unit: Evaluating the Health Effects of Social Interventions:

• This programme is based in the University of Glasgow, and funded by the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) of the Scottish Government Health Directorates. It aims to produce evidence to support public health decision-making. The unit has a particular focus on primary research and systematic reviews as a means of evaluating the actual health impacts of social interventions. Director: Lyndal Bond.
  http://www.sphsu.mrc.ac.uk/research-programmes/ev/