Cent Eur J Public Health 2019, 27(3):198-203 | DOI: 10.21101/cejph.a5234

Factors influencing implementation of evidence-based interventions in public health systems – a model

Joanne Vincenten1, J. Morag MacKay2, Peter Schröder-Bäck1, Tamara Schloemer1, Helmut Brand1,3
1 Department of International Health, School CAPHRI - Care and Public Health Research Institute, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
2 Safe Kids Worldwide, Washington DC, United States of America
3 Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India

Objectives: Evidence that health interventions work is not enough to ensure implementation into policy and practice. The complexity of public health systems requires more diverse actions. This paper proposes a conceptual model to enhance understanding of interlinking factors that influence the evidence implementation process.

Methods: A literature review was conducted to explore factors that influence the process of evidence implementation in complex public health systems, including research findings and observations from 32 case studies of injury prevention interventions underway in 24 countries and results from evidence research networks. Concepts and themes identified through a critical review were organised, ordered and interlinked to build the model.

Results: An Evidence Implementation Model for Public Health Systems and four concepts or themes: Evidence implementation target; Actors involved in implementation; Knowledge transfer; and Barriers and facilitators to evidence implementation were developed to provide a simplified, yet broad framework that highlights multiple factors and back and forth inter-linkages within and between the concepts that influence the uptake of evidence into public health systems policy and practice.

Conclusions: Understanding the factors discussed within and amongst the four concepts of this model should ultimately help to positively influence the uptake of evidence into real world public health systems. This model has relevance for decision makers, researchers, knowledge brokers, and implementers.

Keywords: evidence, implementation, decision-making, public health systems, knowledge transfer

Received: October 17, 2017; Revised: July 23, 2019; Accepted: July 23, 2019; Published: September 30, 2019  Show citation

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Vincenten J, MacKay JM, Schröder-Bäck P, Schloemer T, Brand H. Factors influencing implementation of evidence-based interventions in public health systems – a model. Cent Eur J Public Health. 2019;27(3):198-203. doi: 10.21101/cejph.a5234. PubMed PMID: 31580554.
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