Advancing implementation science in community settings: the implementation strategies applied in communities (ISAC) compilation
Laura E Balis, Bailey Houghtaling, Whitney Clausen, Hannah Lane, Marilyn E Wende, Emiliane Pereira, Gabriella M McLoughlin, Samantha M Harden · 2024
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Balis and co-authors catalog the strategies that community programs actually use to get proven health interventions running outside clinics. Most research on implementation strategies comes from medical settings, yet prevention work on food, activity, and tobacco happens in schools, workplaces, faith groups, and city services. The team interviewed ten researchers and eight practitioners across those settings. Each described the barriers they hit and the moves they used to get past them.
The interviews surfaced 40 distinct strategies. The most common were running practical evaluations, training staff, adapting parts of the program, and lining up funding. Practitioners preferred to hear about such findings through webinars and newsletters, above all from national public health bodies. The authors built the list into a compilation with guidance tools for choosing strategies. For community health teams, the study turns scattered field craft into a shared, searchable playbook.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Laura E Balis, Bailey Houghtaling, Whitney Clausen, Hannah Lane, Marilyn E Wende, Emiliane Pereira, Gabriella M McLoughlin, Samantha M Harden |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 89 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |