The concept of scalability: Increasing the scale and potential adoption of health promotion interventions into policy and practice

Health Promotion International

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 285-298

  Milat, Andrew John ^a   King, Lesley ^b   Bauman, Adrian E ^b   Redman, Sally ^a  

^a SAX INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

intervention studies; program implementation; public health intervention development

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CAPACITY BUILDING; DELPHI STUDY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MANAGEMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; ARTICLE; INTERVENTION STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION; PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVENTION DEVELOPMENT;

AUSTRALIA; CAPACITY BUILDING; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; POLICY MAKING; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC HEALTH;

INTERVENTION STUDIES; PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION; PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVENTION DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84882339811     PISSN: 09574824     EISSN: 14602245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapro/dar097     Document Type: Conference Paper

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