An exploratory analysis of the nature of informal knowledge underlying theories of planned action used for public health oriented knowledge translation

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Kothari, Anita ^a   Boyko, Jennifer A ^a   Campbell Davison, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Informal knowledge; Knowledge translation; Public health; Secondary analysis; Theories of change

Indexed keywords

EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH PLANNING COUNCILS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84940976431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13104-015-1391-6     Document Type: Article

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