Emma E McGinty, Nicholas J Seewald, Sachini Bandara, Magdalena Cerdá, Gail L Daumit, Matthew D Eisenberg, Beth Ann Griffin, Tak Igusa, John W Jackson, Alene Kennedy-Hendricks, Jill Marsteller, Edward J Miech, Jonathan Purtle, Ian Schmid, Megan S Schuler, Christina T Yuan, Elizabeth A Stuart
Policy implementation is a key component of scaling effective chronic disease prevention and management interventions. Policy can support scale-up by mandating or incentivizing intervention adoption, but enacting a policy is only the first step. Fully implementing a policy designed to facilitate implementation of health interventions often requires a range of accompanying implementation structures, like health IT systems, and implementation strategies, like training. Decision makers need to know what policies can support intervention adoption and how to implement those policies, but to date research on policy implementation is limited and innovative methodological approaches are needed...
September 1, 2022: Prevention Science: the Official Journal of the Society for Prevention Research