GuidelineJournal of epidemiology and community health2006
A guide and glossary on post-positivist theory building for population health.
Guideline in Journal of epidemiology and community health, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- A general framework for fidelity assessment.Frontiers in health services · 2026Article
- Trajectories and strategies in implementing screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment for substance use in primary care within public hospitals: a longitudinal qualitative study.Implementation science communications · 2025Article
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- Social connection in long-term care homes: a qualitative study of barriers and facilitators.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Application of behavioural theories, models, and frameworks in pharmacy practice research based on published evidence: a scoping review.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2024Article
- Is implementation science a science? Not yet.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Translating evidence-based knowledge objects into practice.Frontiers in health services · 2023Article
- Repeated measures of implementation variables.Frontiers in health services · 2023Article
- Expanding the conversation: A Person-centred Communication Enhancement Model.Dementia (London, England) · 2022Review
- A scoping review of de-implementation frameworks and models.Implementation science : IS · 2021Article
- Theoretical approaches to process evaluations of complex interventions in health care: a systematic scoping review protocol.Systematic reviews · 2021Article
- The principles of Nurturing Care promote human capital and mitigate adversities from preconception through adolescence.BMJ global health · 2021Review
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- Moving Upstream: The Effect of Tobacco Clean Air Restrictions on Educational Inequalities in Smoking Among Young Adults.Demography · 2019Article
- Creation of a new clinical framework - why women choose mastectomy versus breast conserving therapy.BMC medical research methodology · 2018Article
- The struggle of translating science into action: Foundational concepts of implementation science.Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2018Article
- Building a middle-range theory of free public healthcare seeking in sub-Saharan Africa: a realist review.Health policy and planning · 2017Review
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Abstract
This guide and glossary focuses on the role of theory and conceptual models within population health research. Upon discussing the critical need for theory in conducting interdisciplinary research, it provides strategies for crafting theories that can be empirically tested and a glossary of theory building terms that are useful for guiding research. In addition to general concepts, the glossary includes some terminology commonly found in the social sciences, whose well established traditions and practices of formal theory building may be particularly informative for epidemiologists and other population health researchers who have minimal formal social science training, but study social factors in their research.
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