A critical examination of representations of context within research on population health interventions

Critical Public Health

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 487-500

  Shoveller, Jean ^a   Viehbeck, Sarah ^b   Di Ruggiero, Erica ^b   Greyson, Devon ^a   Thomson, Kim ^a   Knight, Rodney ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN INSTITUTES OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Canada)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

context; critical literature review; health inequalities; implementation; intervention research; Population health intervention

Indexed keywords

PUBLIC HEALTH; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 84951282317     PISSN: 09581596     EISSN: 14693682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2015.1117577     Document Type: Article

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