Dissemination and Implementation Research for Occupational Safety and Health

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• Alternative Title:
  Occup Health Sci
• Personal Author:
  Dugan, Alicia G. ; Punnett, Laura
• Description:
  The translation of evidence-based health innovations into real-world practice is both incomplete and exceedingly slow. This represents a poor return on research investment dollars for the general public. U.S. funders of health sciences research (e.g., NIH, CDC, NIOSH) are increasingly calling for dissemination plans, and to a lesser extent for dissemination and implementation (D&I) research, which are studies that examine the effectiveness of D&I efforts and strategies and the predictors of D&I success. For example, rather than merely broadcasting information about a preventable hazard, D&I research in occupational safety and health (OSH) might examine how employers or practitioners are most likely to receive and act upon that information. We propose here that D&I research should be seen as a dedicated and necessary area of study within OSH, as a way to generate new knowledge that can bridge the research-to-practice gap. We present D&I concepts, frameworks, and examples that can increase the capacity of OSH professionals to conduct D&I research and accelerate the translation of research findings into meaningful everyday practice to improve worker safety and health.
• Keywords:
  Dissemination Health Innovations Implementation Occupational Safety And Health Research To Practice TotalWorker Health
• Source:
  Occup Health Sci. 1(1-2):29-45
• Pubmed ID:
  29725613
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5929143
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  U19 OH008857/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  1
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:e4eda0299f9a5c6bfb04efdc830851a6cd06862e2ea49a3b165c45a08dc77573
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/53808/cdc_53808_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 2.02 MB ]