Intervention Scalability Assessment Tool: A decision support tool for health policy makers and implementers

Health Research Policy and Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2020, Pages

  Milat, Andrew ^a,b,c   Lee, Karen ^b,c   Conte, Kathleen ^b   Grunseit, Anne ^b,c   Wolfenden, Luke ^b,d   Van Nassau, Femke ^e   Orr, Neil ^f   Sreeram, Padmaja ^g   Bauman, Adrian ^b,c  

^a NEW SOUTH WALES MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Australia)

^b The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f University of Sydney   (Australia)

^g MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

assessment support tool; Implementation; scalability; scale up

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; PHYSICIAN; SCALE UP; WORKFORCE; HEALTH PROMOTION; MANAGEMENT; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION;

HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; POLICY MAKING; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 85077480435     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12961-019-0494-2     Document Type: Article

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