Health Promotion Dissemination and Systems Thinking: Towards an Integrative Model
American Journal of Health BehaviorPublished 1 November 2003
Allan Best, Gregg Moor, Bev Holmes, Pamela I. Clark, Ted Bruce, Scott J. Leischow
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System thinking has potential to improve synthesis, translation, and dissemination of research findings in other health promotion initiatives and to close the gap between health promotion research and practice by using systems thinking.
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Systems thinking has potential to improve synthesis, translation, and dissemination of research findings in other health promotion initiatives.
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