Best practice portals in health promotion and disease prevention: approaches, definitions, and intervention evaluation criteria.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The evaluation of practices is a valuable source of evidence in the context of an evidence-based approach to public health. Best practice portals (BPPs) are promising tools for facilitating access to recommended programmes, monitoring and improving the quality of interventions. There are several such portals in Europe, but there is little work in the scientific literature on the subject. The study aimed to identify and characterise BPPs in health promotion and disease prevention and analyse the approaches, definitions, and criteria for evaluating interventions.

Methods

To identify portals, websites of public health institutions and organisations, the PubMed database and grey literature were searched. The material consisted of elements of each portal's design, in

SUBMITTER: Piotrowicz M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11810953 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature