Putting Health Impact Assessment into practice through the lenses of diffusion of innovations theory: a review

Environment, Development and Sustainability

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 23-40

  Byambaa, Tsogtbaatar ^a   Janes, Craig ^a   Takaro, Tim ^a   Corbett, Kitty ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diffusion of innovation; Health Impact Assessment; Informed decision making; Innovation diffusion; Knowledge translation; Public health innovation; Theory based diffusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939876100     PISSN: 1387585X     EISSN: 15732975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10668-014-9538-5     Document Type: Review

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