Lawrence W. Green|Judith M. Ottoson|César García|Robert A. Hiatt
Diffusion Theory and Knowledge Dissemination, Utilization, and Integration in Public Health
UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center|University of California, San Francisco|San Francisco State University|Central Washington University|UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center|University of California, San Francisco
legislators scientific beneficiaries express growing concerns fruits investment health research reaching public policy makers practitioners evidencebased practices practitioners public lament lack relevance fit evidence reaches barriers implementation much written gap medicine much less public health review concepts guided misguided public health attempts bridge science practice dissemination implementation beginning diffusion theory inspired much public healths work dissemination compare diffusion dissemination implementation related notions served fields bridging science practice finally suggest ways blend diffusion theory evidence guiding decentralized approach dissemination implementation public health including changes ways produce science