Assessing communities of practice in health policy: A conceptual framework as a first step towards empirical research

Health Research Policy and Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Bertone, Maria P ^a   Meessen, Bruno ^a   Clarysse, Guy ^b   Hercot, David ^a   Kelley, Allison ^g   Kafando, Yamba ^c   Lange, Isabelle ^d   Pfaffmann, Jérôme ^b   Ridde, Valéry ^c,e   Sieleunou, Isidore ^a   Witter, Sophie ^f  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b UNICEF   (United States)

^c Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique   (Burkina Faso)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^g NONE

Author keywords

Communities of practice; Evaluation; Health policy; Knowledge management; Knowledge translation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; ORGANIZATION;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONCEPT FORMATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNATIONALITY; KNOWLEDGE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84885495300     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4505-11-39     Document Type: Article

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