Wk 3 Team Assignment: PERIE Model

FIGURE 2-1 Evidence-Based Public Health: The P.E.R.I.E. Approach

Adapted from Riegelman R. Evidence Based Public Health and Cigarette Smoking. Available at www.teachprevention.org. Accessed August 16, 2013.

These five questions provide a framework for defining, analyzing, and addressing a wide range of public health issues and can be applied to cigarette smoking for the purposes of this chapter.4 We will call this framework the P.E.R.I.E. process. This process is actually circular, as illustrated in Figure 2-1. If the evaluation suggests that more needs to be done, the cycle can and should be repeated. Thus, it is an ongoing process.

Using cigarette smoking as an example, we will illustrate the steps needed to apply the evidence-based public health approach.

HOW CAN WE DESCRIBE A HEALTH PROBLEM? In describing a health problem, we need to address what we will call the burden of disease, the course of disease, and the distribution of disease. The first step in addressing a health problem is to describe its burden of disease, which is the occurrence of disability and death due to a disease. In public heath, disability is often called morbidity and death is called mortality. We will want to know the current burden of disease and whether there has been a recent

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