The use of tacit and explicit knowledge in public health

Proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management, ECKM

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 574-582

  Kothari, Anita ^a   Rudman, Debbie ^a   Dobbins, Maureen ^b   Rouse, Michael ^c   Sibbald, Shannon ^a   Edwards, Nancy ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Explicit knowledge; Knowledge management; Knowledge translation; Public health; Tacit knowledge

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; DECISION MAKERS; EXPLICIT KNOWLEDGE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS; KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION; PROGRAM PLANNING; PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES; TACIT AND EXPLICIT KNOWLEDGE; TACIT KNOWLEDGE; TIME CONSTRAINTS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 84872666018     PISSN: 20488963     EISSN: 20488971     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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