Efficacious, effective, and embedded interventions: Implementation research in infectious disease control
Open Access
- 1 October 2008
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 8 (1) , 343
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-8-343
Abstract
Research in infectious disease control is heavily skewed towards high end technology; development of new drugs, vaccines and clinical interventions. Oft ignored, is the evidence to inform the best strategies that ensure the embedding of interventions into health systems and amongst populations. In this paper we undertake an analysis of the challenge in the development of research for the sustainable implementation of disease control interventions.Keywords
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