Scaling up evidence-based interventions in US public systems to prevent behavioral health problems: Challenges and opportunities

AA Fagan, BK Bumbarger, RP Barth, CP Bradshaw… - Prevention …, 2019 - Springer
A number of programs, policies, and practices have been tested using rigorous scientific
methods and shown to prevent behavioral health problems (Catalano et al., Lancet 379 …

Scaling‐up evidence‐based obesity interventions: a systematic review assessing intervention adaptations and effectiveness and quantifying the scale‐up penalty

S McCrabb, C Lane, A Hall, A Milat, A Bauman… - Obesity …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Maximizing the benefits of investments in obesity research requires effective interventions to
be adopted and disseminated broadly across populations (scaled‐up). However …

Spreading and scaling up innovation and improvement

T Greenhalgh, C Papoutsi - Bmj, 2019 - bmj.com
Spreading and scaling up innovation and improvement Page 1 QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
Spreading and scaling up innovation and improvement OPEN ACCESS Disseminating innovation …

[HTML][HTML] Adoption and impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19

N Imai, KAM Gaythorpe, S Abbott, S Bhatia… - Wellcome open …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Several non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) have been implemented
across the world to control the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Social distancing …

Nature, smells, and human wellbeing

PR Bentley, JC Fisher, M Dallimer, RD Fish, GE Austen… - Ambio, 2023 - Springer
The link between nature and human wellbeing is well established. However, few studies go
beyond considering the visual and auditory underpinnings of this relationship, even though …

Pandemics and maternal health: the indirect effects of COVID‐19

DN Lucas, JH Bamber - Anaesthesia, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Infectious diseases can directly affect women and men differently. During the COVID‐19
pandemic, higher case fatality rates have been observed in men in most countries. There is …

Assessing scalability of an intervention: why, how and who?

K Zamboni, J Schellenberg, C Hanson… - Health policy and …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Public health interventions should be designed with scale in mind, and researchers and
implementers must plan for scale-up at an early stage. Yet, there is limited awareness …

Identification and evaluation of risk of generalizability biases in pilot versus efficacy/effectiveness trials: a systematic review and meta-analysis

MW Beets, RG Weaver, JPA Ioannidis, M Geraci… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Background Preliminary evaluations of behavioral interventions, referred to as pilot studies,
predate the conduct of many large-scale efficacy/effectiveness trial. The ability of a pilot …

Implementation and scale-up of physical activity and behavioural nutrition interventions: an evaluation roadmap

H McKay, PJ Naylor, E Lau, SM Gray… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Background Interventions that work must be effectively delivered at scale to achieve
population level benefits. Researchers must choose among a vast array of implementation …

Intervention Scalability Assessment Tool: A decision support tool for health policy makers and implementers

A Milat, K Lee, K Conte, A Grunseit… - Health research policy …, 2020 - Springer
Background Promising health interventions tested in pilot studies will only achieve
population-wide impact if they are implemented at scale across communities and health …