APHO supports joint working across the PHOs to produce information, data and intelligence on people's health and health care for practitioners, policy makers and the wider community. The high quality public health intelligence is central to both local and central government health policy and decision-making.
With specialist knowledge and a wealth of information and analytical skills across our network, APHO is able to provide access to a range of national and international public health data, methodological and audit tools.
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Training activities on a range of topics. Critical appraisal is within "Health economics information resources: a self-study course" and general methods within "HTA 101: Introduction to health technology assessment"
These are a series of documents produced by the NICE Decision Support Unit. They were commissioned by NICE with the aim of providing further information about how to implement the approaches described in the current NICE Guide to the Methods of Technology Appraisal (2008).