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Practical Implementation Science: Moving Evidence into Action
Practical Implementation Science is designed for graduate health professional and advanced undergraduate students who want to master the steps of using implementation science to improve public health. Engaging and accessible, this textbook demonstrates how to implement evidence-based practices effectively through use of relevant theories, frameworks, models, tools, and research findings. Additional real-world case studies across public health, global health, and health policy provide essential context to the major issues facing implementation domestically and globally with consideration of communities in low-to-middle-income countries (LMIC).
The textbook is organized around the steps involved in planning, executing, and evaluating implementation efforts to improve health outcomes in communities. Coverage spans assessing the knowledge-practice gap; selecting an evidence-based practice (EBP) to reduce the gap; assessing EBP fit and adapting the EBP; assessing barriers and facilitators of implementation; engaging stakeholders; creating an implementation structure; implementing the EBP; and evaluating the EBP effort. Each chapter includes a how to approach to conducting the task at hand. The text also addresses the practical importance of implementation science through disseminating EBPs; scaling up EBPs; sustaining EBPs; and de-implementing practices that are no longer effective. All chapters include learning objectives and summaries with emphasized Key Points for Practice, Common Pitfalls in Practice, and discussion questions to direct learning and classroom discussion. Fit for students of public health, health policy, nursing, medicine, mental health, behavioral health, allied health, and social work, Practical Implementation Science seeks to bridge the gap from scientific evidence to effective practice.
Key Features:
Soup to Nuts Approach - Distills the steps to selecting, adapting, implementing, evaluating, scaling up, and sustaining evidence-based practices
Expert Insight - Editors and chapter authors bring years of experience from leading implementation programs and interventions
Multidisciplinary Focus - Utilizes cases and research findings relevant to students of public health, medicine, nursing, mental health, behavioral health, and social work
Case Studies and Real-World Examples - Blends frameworks, models, and tools with real-world examples for students interested in both domestic and global health
eBook Access - Included with print purchase for use on most mobile devices or computers
Instructor's Packet - Complete with an Instructor's Manual, PowerPoint slides, and a Sample Syllabus
The textbook is organized around the steps involved in planning, executing, and evaluating implementation efforts to improve health outcomes in communities. Coverage spans assessing the knowledge-practice gap; selecting an evidence-based practice (EBP) to reduce the gap; assessing EBP fit and adapting the EBP; assessing barriers and facilitators of implementation; engaging stakeholders; creating an implementation structure; implementing the EBP; and evaluating the EBP effort. Each chapter includes a how to approach to conducting the task at hand. The text also addresses the practical importance of implementation science through disseminating EBPs; scaling up EBPs; sustaining EBPs; and de-implementing practices that are no longer effective. All chapters include learning objectives and summaries with emphasized Key Points for Practice, Common Pitfalls in Practice, and discussion questions to direct learning and classroom discussion. Fit for students of public health, health policy, nursing, medicine, mental health, behavioral health, allied health, and social work, Practical Implementation Science seeks to bridge the gap from scientific evidence to effective practice.
Key Features:
Soup to Nuts Approach - Distills the steps to selecting, adapting, implementing, evaluating, scaling up, and sustaining evidence-based practices
Expert Insight - Editors and chapter authors bring years of experience from leading implementation programs and interventions
Multidisciplinary Focus - Utilizes cases and research findings relevant to students of public health, medicine, nursing, mental health, behavioral health, and social work
Case Studies and Real-World Examples - Blends frameworks, models, and tools with real-world examples for students interested in both domestic and global health
eBook Access - Included with print purchase for use on most mobile devices or computers
Instructor's Packet - Complete with an Instructor's Manual, PowerPoint slides, and a Sample Syllabus
844 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 18, 2022
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August 9, 2026
With the Internet, the world has become glut with information, and the domain of scientific knowledge is no exception. The challenge, however, has become implementing that knowledge into healthcare practice. Papers are published, read a few times, cited by other authors, and often die in scientific journals. Those journals are great, but the pipeline to practice (the clinic and patient lives) needs to open up more. Translational science and implementation science aim to do just that. They want to bind bench to bedside and back more closely.
The trouble is that most books about implementation science are written for researchers who want to advance the field by providing more information. Practitioners, like myself, are left to pick up fragments that apply to themselves. To remedy, this book seeks to address practice while still being deeply informed by implementation science research. As the subtitle suggests, it's written for action.
Tauted by the shiny medal on the front, the prose is excellent and accessible. It explains all the nuances of the field and what it takes to bring an innovation into everyday practice in whatever venues it must be applied. Beyond dissemination, it also talks about establishing feedback channels, addressing local policymakers, and scaling up from pilot projects to bigger frontiers. No major topic in the field is skipped.
To reiterate, this book is focused on implementation science practitioners, not just researchers. As such, it's mainly geared toward graduate school classrooms where students aim to apply this knowledge in healthcare practice. At this time, it's the best out there for this aim. It also addresses program managers and other implementers out of school. Funding agencies and biomedical researchers all realize that closing the gap from research to results is absolutely necessary. This book teaches how to address that gap ethically, responsibly, and with necessary haste.
The trouble is that most books about implementation science are written for researchers who want to advance the field by providing more information. Practitioners, like myself, are left to pick up fragments that apply to themselves. To remedy, this book seeks to address practice while still being deeply informed by implementation science research. As the subtitle suggests, it's written for action.
Tauted by the shiny medal on the front, the prose is excellent and accessible. It explains all the nuances of the field and what it takes to bring an innovation into everyday practice in whatever venues it must be applied. Beyond dissemination, it also talks about establishing feedback channels, addressing local policymakers, and scaling up from pilot projects to bigger frontiers. No major topic in the field is skipped.
To reiterate, this book is focused on implementation science practitioners, not just researchers. As such, it's mainly geared toward graduate school classrooms where students aim to apply this knowledge in healthcare practice. At this time, it's the best out there for this aim. It also addresses program managers and other implementers out of school. Funding agencies and biomedical researchers all realize that closing the gap from research to results is absolutely necessary. This book teaches how to address that gap ethically, responsibly, and with necessary haste.
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