[Medical Progress ans Public Health - Results of the Working Group 4 of the Forum Future Public Health, Berlin].

Medical actions that have been shown to be beneficial in individual studies may be associated with a negative benefit-harm balance at the population level due to oversupply or undersupply. Therefore, structured dialogues among basic researchers, clinicians and public health researchers are needed to generate relevant public health questions in relation to medical actions and to undertake research projects that answer these questions. For this purpose, more structured PhD programs in public health are required. Implementation barriers for evidence-based medical actions in the population need to be identified and tailored interventions to reduce these barriers need to be developed and evaluated.