A guide to implementation research in the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases

Overview

Implementation research remains relatively new to population-based health programmes and is an area in which language and terminology are still being developed. In this guide implementation research is defined as “the scientific study of the processes used to implement policies and interventions and the contextual factors that affect these processes”. In other words, implementation research investigates the various factors that affect how a new policy or intervention may be used (or implemented) in real-life settings.

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