Informed-evidence decision-making (IEDM) has emerged as the predominant principle of providing guidance for policy-making and practice, however, the best available evidences requisite of performing successfully IEDM. Different forms of evidence and different kinds of review questions call for the development of new approaches that are designed to more effectively and rigorously identify and synthesize the evidence. Fourteen methods of reviewing literature have been recently used to identify and synthesize evidence, of which scoping reviews is increasing popular. This article introduces aspects such as background, purpose and methodological frame work and explains the process of it with an example so that facilitating the dissemination and utilization of scoping review in China.
In order to promote the harmonization of decision-making processes in public health and the harmonization of decision-making criteria, McMaster University in Canada and the Estonian Health Insurance Fund jointly published an article on an evidence ecosystem for health decision-making in 2022 with the support of the World Health Organization. Based on the proposed health decision-making evidence ecosystem model of the article, this paper interpreted the processes and elements in the model, aiming to provide reference for evidence-based public health decision making in China.