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Health Promotion International Advance Access originally published online on June 27, 2007
Health Promotion International 2007 22(3):254-260; doi:10.1093/heapro/dam017
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The nature of evidence resources and knowledge translation for health promotion practitioners

Rebecca Armstrong1,2,*, Elizabeth Waters1,2, Belinda Crockett3 and Helen Keleher3

1Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health Field, Melbourne, Australia 2School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Melbourne, Victoria 3125, Australia 3Department of Health Science, Monash University, Victoria, Australia

* Corresponding author. E-mail: cochrane{at}vichealth.vic.gov.au


  Abstract

Governments and other public health agencies have become increasingly interested in evidence-informed policy and practice. Translating research evidence into programmatic change has proved challenging and the evidence around how to effectively promote and facilitate this process is still relatively limited. This paper presents the findings from an evaluation of a series of evidence-based health promotion resources commissioned by the Victorian Department of Human Services. The evaluation used qualitative methods to explore how practitioners for whom the resources were intended, viewed and used them. Document and literature review and analysis, and a series of key informant interviews and focus groups were conducted. The findings clearly demonstrate that the resources are unlikely to act as agents for change unless they are linked to a knowledge management process that includes practitioner engagement. This paper also considers the potential role of knowledge brokers in helping to identify and translate evidence into practice.

Key words: evidence-based health promotion; knowledge translation


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