The concept of scalability: increasing the scale and potential adoption of health promotion interventions into policy and practice

AJ Milat, L King, AE Bauman… - Health promotion …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Increased focus on prevention presents health promoters with new opportunities and
challenges. In this context, the study of factors influencing policy-maker decisions to scale up …

Narrative review of models and success factors for scaling up public health interventions

AJ Milat, A Bauman, S Redman - Implementation Science, 2015 - Springer
Background To maximise the impact of public health research, research interventions found
to be effective in improving health need to be scaled up and delivered on a population-wide …

A guide to scaling up population health interventions

AJ Milat, R Newson, L King… - Public Health …, 2016 - researchnow.flinders.edu.au
The'how to'of scaling up public health interventions for maximum reach and outcomes is
receiving greater attention; however, there remains a paucity of practical tools to guide those …

Increasing the scale and adoption of population health interventions: experiences and perspectives of policy makers, practitioners, and researchers

AJ Milat, L King, R Newson, L Wolfenden… - Health research policy …, 2014 - Springer
Background Decisions to scale up population health interventions from small projects to
wider state or national implementation is fundamental to maximising population-wide health …

Pathways for scaling up public health interventions

D Indig, K Lee, A Grunseit, A Milat, A Bauman - BMC public health, 2018 - Springer
Background To achieve population-wide health improvement, public health interventions
found effective in selected samples need to be 'scaled up'and implemented more widely …

Achieving 'best practice'in health promotion: improving the fit between research and practice

D Nutbeam - Health Education Research, 1996 - academic.oup.com
This paper is based on the proposition that transfer of knowledge between researchers and
practitioners concerning effective health promotion interventions is less than optimal. It …

Multiplying health gains: the critical role of capacity-building within health promotion programs

P Hawe, M Noort, L King, C Jordens - Health policy, 1997 - Elsevier
Health outcomes in populations are the product of three factors:(1) the size of effect of the
intervention;(2) the reach or penetration of an intervention into a population and (3) the …

A framework for scaling up health interventions: lessons from large-scale improvement initiatives in Africa

PM Barker, A Reid, MW Schall - Implementation Science, 2015 - Springer
Background Scaling up complex health interventions to large populations is not a
straightforward task. Without intentional, guided efforts to scale up, it can take many years for …

Health promotion research and the diffusion and institutionalization of interventions

BF Oldenburg, JF Sallis, ML Ffrench… - Health education …, 1999 - academic.oup.com
To examine the extent to which health promotion research is providing an empirical basis for
the diffusion and institutionalization of effective interventions, we conducted a systematic …

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 …