Section outline

  • Lecture: Approaches to understanding the implementation gap.

    Understand emerging tradition of theoretical thinking addressing the gap between evidence and practice; understand the role of theory; become familiar with common frameworks and theories; specific frameworks (e.g., CFIR); illustrate applications of theory to inform the understanding of a particular implementation problem; understand the critical role of subject area content knowledge in understanding any implementation gap.  Epi framing: description (describe the gap) using epidemiological tools - incidence, ratio and difference measures of association, but also other higher-dimensional ways of quantifying the gap, include disparities using econometric approaches to understanding distributions such as the Lorenz curve and related quantities,  competing risks, and issues of where you are on the scale, and how to apportion the gap at different levels of system across individuals and within individuals.

    Faculty: Elvin Geng

    Location:  Mission Hall 1406

    • Session Slides:

    • April 12 2018 Lecture File

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Required Reading:

    • Michie, Susan, Maartje M. van Stralen, and Robert West. "The behaviour change wheel: a new method for characterising and designing behaviour change interventions." Implementation Science 6.1 (2011): 42. File
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    • Damschroder, Laura J., et al. "Fostering implementation of health services research findings into practice: a consolidated framework for advancing implementation science." Implement Sci 4.1 (2009): 50. File
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    • Optional Reading:

    • Rogers, Everett M. Diffusion of innovations. Simon and Schuster, 2010. (Chapter 1) File
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    • Green, Lawrence W., et al. "Diffusion theory and knowledge dissemination, utilization, and integration in public health." Annual review of public health 30 (2009). File
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    • Nilsen, Per. "Making sense of implementation theories, models and frameworks." Implementation Science 10.1 (2015): 53. File
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    • Donabedian, Avedis. "The quality of care: How can it be assessed?" Jama 260.12 (1988): 1743-1748 File
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    • Rimer, Barbara K., and Karen Glanz. "Theory at a glance: a guide for health promotion practice." (2005). File
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    • Christopoulos KA, Hartogensis W, Glidden DV, Pilcher CD, Gandhi M, Geng EH. The Lorenz curve: a novel method for understanding viral load distribution at the population level. AIDS (London, England). 2017 Jan 14;31(2):309. File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):

    • 239 Assignment 2 - Gap Analysis File