National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools: A Model for Evidence-Informed Decision-Making in Public Health. [fact sheet]. 2012, Retrieved from http://www.nccmt.ca/pubs/FactSheet_EIDM_EN_WEB.pdf
Google Scholar
Brownson RC, Fielding JE, Maylahn CM: Evidence-based public health: a fundamental concept for public health practice. Annu Rev Public Health. 2009, 30: 175-201. 10.1146/annurev.publhealth.031308.100134.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Nutley S, Walter I, Davies H: From knowing to doing: a framework for understanding the evidence into practice agenda. Eval Program Plann. 2003, 9: 125-148.
Google Scholar
Bowen S, Zwi AB: Pathways to “evidence-informed” policy and practice: a framework for action. PLoS Med. 2005, 2: e166. 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020166.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Oxman AD, Lavis JN, Fretheim A, Lewin S: SUPPORT tools for evidence-informed health policymaking (STP) 17: dealing with insufficient research evidence. Health Res Policy Syst. 2009, 7 (Suppl 1): S17. 10.1186/1478-4505-7-S1-S17.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Lavis JN, Wilson MG, Oxman AD, Lewin S, Fretheim A: SUPPORT tools for evidence-informed health policymaking (STP) 4: using research evidence to clarify a problem. Health Res Policy Syst. 2009, 7 (Suppl 1): S4. 10.1186/1478-4505-7-S1-S4.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Macintyre S, Petticrew M: Good intentions and received wisdom are not enough. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2000, 54: 802-803. 10.1136/jech.54.11.802.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Chalmers I: Trying to do more good than harm in policy and practice: the role of rigorous, transparent, up-to-date evaluations. Ann Am Acad Pol Soc Sci. 2003, 589: 22-40. 10.1177/0002716203254762.
Article
Google Scholar
Chalmers I: If evidence-informed policy works in practice, does it matter if it doesn’t work in theory? . Evid Policy: A J Res, Debate Pract. 2005, 1: 227-242. 10.1332/1744264053730806.
Article
Google Scholar
Canadian Institutes of Health Research: Knowledge translation strategy 2004 —2009: Innovation in action. 2004, Ottawa, ON: Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Google Scholar
Task Force on Health Systems Research: Informed choices for attaining the millennium development goals: towards an international cooperative agenda for health systems research. Lancet. 2004, 364: 997-1003.
Article
Google Scholar
Banks G: ANU Public Lecture Series, presented by ANZSOG. Evidence-based policy-making: What is it? How do we get it?. 2008, Canberra: COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
Google Scholar
Petticrew M, Whitehead M, Macintyre SJ, Graham H, Egan M: Evidence for public health policy on inequalities: 1: the reality according to policymakers. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2004, 58: 811-816. 10.1136/jech.2003.015289.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Davies HTO, Nutley SM: Evidence-based policy and practice: moving from rhetoric to reality. 2001, Third International, Inter-disciplinary Evidence-Based Policies and Indicator Systems Conference, Centre for Public Policy and Management, University of St Andrews
Google Scholar
Bowen S, Erickson T, Martens PJ, Crockett S: More than “Using Research”: the real challenges in promoting evidence-informed decision-making. Healthc Policy. 2009, 4: 87-102.
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Hanney S, Gonzalez-Block M, Buxton M, Kogan M: The utilisation of health research in policy-making: concepts, examples and methods of assessment. Health Res Policy Syst. 2003, 1: 2. 10.1186/1478-4505-1-2.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Davies HTO, Nutley SM, Walter I: Assessing the impact of social science research: conceptual, methodological and practical issues: a background discussion paper. 2005, UK: Research Unit for Research Utilization, School of Management, University of St Andrews
Google Scholar
Innvaer S, Vist G, Trommald M, Oxman A: Health policy-makers’ perceptions of their use of evidence: a systematic review. J Health Serv Res Policy. 2002, 7: 239-244. 10.1258/135581902320432778.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Elliott H, Popay J: How are policy makers using evidence? Models of research utilisation and local NHS policy making. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2000, 54: 461-468. 10.1136/jech.54.6.461.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Armstrong R, Waters E, Moore L, Riggs E, Cuervo LG, Lumbiganon P, Hawe P: Improving the reporting of public health intervention research: advancing TREND and CONSORT. J Public Health (Oxf). 2008, 30: 103-109. 10.1093/pubmed/fdm082.
Article
Google Scholar
Rogers EM: Diffusion of Innovations. 1962, New York: The Free Press
Google Scholar
Tetroe JM, Graham ID, Foy R, Robinson N, Eccles MP, Wensing M, Durieux P, Legare F, Nielson CP, Adily A: Health research funding agencies’ support and promotion of knowledge translation: an international study. Milbank Q. 2008, 86: 125-155. 10.1111/j.1468-0009.2007.00515.x.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Armstrong R, Waters E, Dobbins M, Lavis John N, Petticrew M, Christensen R: Knowledge translation strategies for facilitating evidence-informed public health decision making among managers and policy-makers. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (protocol). 2011, 10.1002/14651858.CD009181
Google Scholar
Mitton C, Adair CE, McKenzie E, Patten SB, Waye PB: Knowledge transfer and exchange: review and synthesis of the literature. Milbank Q. 2007, 85: 729-768. 10.1111/j.1468-0009.2007.00506.x.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Wandersman A, Duffy J, Flaspohler P, Noonan R, Lubell K, Stillman L, Blachman M, Dunville R, Saul J: Bridging the gap between prevention research and practice: the interactive systems framework for dissemination and implementation. Am J Community Psychol. 2008, 41: 171-181. 10.1007/s10464-008-9174-z.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Waters E, Armstrong R, Swinburn B, Moore L, Dobbins M, Anderson L, Petticrew M, Clark R, Conning R, Moodie M, Carter R: An exploratory cluster randomised controlled trial of knowledge translation strategies to support evidence-informed decision-making in local governments (The KT4LG study). BMC Public Health. 2011, 11: 34. 10.1186/1471-2458-11-34.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Hawe P, Shiell A, Riley T: Theorising interventions as events in systems. Am J Community Psychol. 2009, 43: 267-276. 10.1007/s10464-009-9229-9.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Department of Planning and Community Developmen: Guide to Local Government. 2013, Retrieved October 2013, from http://www.dpcd.vic.gov.au/localgovernment/guide-to-local-government
Google Scholar
Parliament of Victoria: Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008. 2008, Parliament of Victoria
Google Scholar
Allender S, Gleeson E, Crammond B, Sacks G, Lawrence M, Peeters A, Loff B, Swinburn B: Moving beyond ‘rates, roads and rubbish’: how do local governments make choices about healthy public policy to prevent obesity?. Aust N Z Health Policy. 2009, 6: 20. 10.1186/1743-8462-6-20.
Article
Google Scholar
Campbell S, Benita S, Coates E, Davies P, Penn G: Analysis for policy: evidence-based policy in practice. 2007, UK: Government Social Research Unit
Google Scholar
Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth): Food for All program 2005–10: Evaluation report. 2011, Melbourne: VicHealth
Google Scholar
The Department of Planning and Community Development: Transport Connections Program. 2012, Retrieved 13 Dec 2012, from http://www.rdv.vic.gov.au/community-programs/transport-connections
Google Scholar
Creswell J, Plano Clark V, Gutmann M, Hanson W: Advanced mixed methods research designs. Handbook of mixed methods in social and behavioural research. Edited by: Tashakkori A, Teddlie C. 2003, California: Sage Publications
Google Scholar
Dobrow MJ, Goel V, Lemieux-Charles L, Black NA: The impact of context on evidence utilization: a framework for expert groups developing health policy recommendations. Soc Sci Med. 2006, 63: 1811-1824. 10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.04.020.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Estabrooks C: The conceptual structure of research utilization. Res Nurs Health. 1999, 22: 203-216. 10.1002/(SICI)1098-240X(199906)22:3<203::AID-NUR3>3.0.CO;2-9.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Amara N, Ouimet M, Laundry R: New evidence on instrumental, conceptual and symbolic utilization of university research in government agencies. Sci Commun. 2004, 26: 75-106. 10.1177/1075547004267491.
Article
Google Scholar
Lavis JN, Ross SE, Hurley JE, Hohenadel JM, Stoddart GL, Woodward CA, Abelson J: Examining the role of health services research in public policymaking. Milbank Q. 2002, 80: 125-154. 10.1111/1468-0009.00005.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Petticrew M, Platt S, McCollam A, Wilson S, Thomas S: “We’re not short of people telling us what the problems are. We’re short of people telling us what to do”: an appraisal of public policy and mental health. BMC Public Health. 2008, 8: 314. 10.1186/1471-2458-8-314.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Grimshaw JM, Shirran L, Thomas R, Mowatt G, Fraser C, Bero L, Grilli R, Harvey E, Oxman A, O’Brien MA: Changing provider behavior: an overview of systematic reviews of interventions. Med Care. 2001, 39: II2-II45.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Bero LA, Grilli R, Grimshaw JM, Harvey E, Oxman AD, Thomson MA: Closing the gap between research and practice: an overview of systematic reviews of interventions to promote the implementation of research findings. The Cochrane effective practice and organization of care review group. Br Med J. 1998, 317: 465-468. 10.1136/bmj.317.7156.465.
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Kohatsu ND, Robinson JG, Torner JC: Evidence-based public health: an evolving concept. Am J Prev Med. 2004, 27: 417-421.
PubMed
Google Scholar
Orton L, Lloyd-Williams F, Taylor-Robinson D, O’Flaherty M, Capewell S: The use of research evidence in public health decision making processes: systematic review. PLoS One. 2011, 6: e21704. 10.1371/journal.pone.0021704.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Armstrong R: PhD Thesis. Evidence-informed public health decision-making in local government. 2011, University of Melbourne, Melbourne School of Public Health,http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/9684,
Google Scholar
Best A, Moor G, Holmes B, Clark PI, Bruce T, Leischow S, Buchholz K, Krajnak J: Health promotion dissemination and systems thinking: towards an integrative model. Am J Health Behav. 2003, 27: S206-S216. 10.5993/AJHB.27.1.s3.4.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Higgins J, Green S: Cochrane handbook for systematic reviews of interventions. The Cochrane Library. 2006, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Google Scholar
Dobbins M, Hanna S, Ciliska D, Manske S, Cameron R, Mercer S, O’Mara L, DeCorby K, Robeson P: A randomized controlled trial evaluating the impact of knowledge translation and exchange strategies. Implement Sci. 2009, 4: 61. 10.1186/1748-5908-4-61.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Dobbins M: Knowledge Translation and Exchange Questionnaire. 2004, Canadian Institute for Health Research: Canada
Google Scholar
Weatherly H, Drummond M, Smith D: Using evidence in the development of local health policies. Some evidence from the United Kingdom. Int J Technol Assess Health Care. 2002, 18: 771-781.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Bickman L: The functions of program theory. New Directions for Program Evaluation. 1987, 1987 (33): 5-18. 10.1002/ev.1443.
Article
Google Scholar
Frechtling J: Logic modeling methods in program evaluation. 2007, San Francisco: John Wiley and Sons
Google Scholar
Millar A, Simeone RS, Carnevale JT: Logic models: a systems tool for performance management. Eval Program Plann. 2001, 24: 73-81. 10.1016/S0149-7189(00)00048-3.
Article
Google Scholar
Anderson LM, Petticrew M, Rehfuess E, Armstrong R, Ueffing E, Baker P, Francis D, Tugwell P: Using logic models to capture complexity in systematic reviews. Res Synth Methods. 2011, 2: 33-42. 10.1002/jrsm.32.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Dearing JW: Applying diffusion of innovation theory to intervention development. Res Soc Work Pract. 2009, 19: 503-518. 10.1177/1049731509335569.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Green LW, Ottoson JM, García C, Hiatt RA: Diffusion theory and knowledge dissemination, utilization, and integration in public health. Annu Rev Public Health. 2009, 30 (1): 151-174. 10.1146/annurev.publhealth.031308.100049.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Weiss C: The many meanings of research utilization. Public Adm Rev. 1979, 426-431.
Google Scholar
Beyer JM: Research utilization: bridging the gap between communities. J Manag Inq. 1997, 6 (17-22):
Hanney SR, Gonzalez-Block M, Buxton MJ, Kogan M: The utilization of health services research in policy-making: concepts, examples and methods of assessment. Health Res Policy Syst. 2003, 1:
Google Scholar
Nonaka I, Takeuchi H: The knowledge creating company: How Japanese companies create the dynamics of innovation. 1995, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Google Scholar
Dobbins M, DeCorby K, Robeson P, Husson H, Tirilis D, Greco L: A knowledge management tool for public health: health-evidence.ca. BMC Public Health. 2010, 10: 496. 10.1186/1471-2458-10-496.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Dobbins M, Robeson P, Ciliska D, Hanna S, Cameron R, O’Mara L, Decorby K, Mercer S: A description of a knowledge broker role implemented as part of a randomized controlled trial evaluating three knowledge translation strategies. Implement Sci. 2009, 4: 23. 10.1186/1748-5908-4-23.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Baker EA, Brownson RC, Dreisinger M, McIntosh LD, Karamehic-Muratovic A: Examining the role of training in evidence-based public health: a qualitative study. Health Promot Pract. 2009, 10: 342-348. 10.1177/1524839909336649.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Eldredge JD, Carr R, Broudy D, Voorhees RE: The effect of training on question formulation among public health practitioners: results from a randomized controlled trial. J Med Libr Assoc. 2008, 96: 299. 10.3163/1536-5050.96.4.005.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Canadian Health Services Research Foundation: Is Research Working for You? A Self-Assessment Tool and Discussion Guide for Health Services Management and Policy Organizations. 2005, Ottawa, Ontario: Canadian Health Services Research Foundation
Google Scholar
Kothari A, Edwards N, Hamel N, Judd M: Is research working for you? Validating a tool to examine the capacity of health organizations to use research. Implement Sci. 2009, 4: 46. 10.1186/1748-5908-4-46.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Waters E, Armstrong R, Swinburn B, Moore L, Dobbins M, Anderson L, Petticrew M, Clark R, Conning R, Moodie M, Carter R: An exploratory cluster randomised controlled trial of knowledge translation strategies to support evidence-informed decision-making in local governments (The KT4LG study). BMC Public Health. 2011, 11:
Google Scholar