Building Capacity for Evidence-Based Public Health: Reconciling the Pulls of Practice and the Push of Research

Annual Review of Public Health

Volumn 39, Issue , 2018, Pages 27-53

  Brownson, Ross C ^a   Fielding, Jonathan E ^b   Green, Lawrence W ^c  

^a USA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

capacity building; context; evidence based interventions; external validity; implementation; practice based evidence

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; CAPACITY BUILDING; CERTIFICATION; COMMUNITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INTERNAL VALIDITY; LEADERSHIP; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH;

CAPACITY BUILDING; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HUMANS; IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; RESEARCH;

EID: 85044737937     PISSN: 01637525     EISSN: 15452093     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-040617-014746     Document Type: Conference Paper

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