Translating evidence into population health improvement: Strategies and barriers

Annual Review of Public Health

Volumn 36, Issue , 2015, Pages 463-482

  Woolf, Steven H ^a   Purnell, Jason Q ^b   Simon, Sarah M ^a   Zimmerman, Emily B ^a   Camberos, Gabriela J ^b   Haley, Amber ^a   Fields, Robert P ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Community engagement; Dissemination and implementation; Health in all policies; Public health policy; Research translation

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH PROMOTION; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH;

COMMUNICATION; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84925266246     PISSN: 01637525     EISSN: 15452093     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-082214-110901     Document Type: Review

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