Practical Implementation Science: Moving Evidence into Action

Practical Implementation Science is a textbook designed for graduate health professional and advanced undergraduate students who want to master the steps of using implementation science to improve public health. It covers assessing the knowledge-practice gap, selecting an evidence-based practice, assessing fit and adapting the EBP, assessing barriers and facilitators of implementation, engaging stakeholders, creating an implementation structure, implementing the EBP, and evaluating the EBP effort. The textbook also addresses the practical importance of implementation science through disseminating EBPs, scaling up EBPs, sustaining EBPs, and de-implementing practices that are no longer effective.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 300 pages
Publication date: 28 March 2022
Publisher: Springer Publishing Co Inc

Prose Award Finalist for Nursing and Allied Health Services Category!


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Practical Implementation Science: Moving Evidence Into Action provides the ideal text for a masters-level implementation science course.


It fills an important gap by focusing on building skills among trainees whose careers will focus more on implementation practice than research, and prepares them to partner with scientists to enhance effective implementation in public health and health systems. Most importantly, my students feel that the book is helping make a topic that can be experienced as complex, very accessible.


Donna Shelley, MD, MPH, Professor, Dept. of Public Health Policy and Management, Director, Global Center for Implementation Science, NYU School of Global Public Health


Practical Implementation Science is designed for graduate health professional and advanced undergraduate students who want to master the steps of using implementation science to improve public health.


Engaging and accessible, this textbook demonstrates how to implement evidence-based practices effectively through use of relevant theories, frameworks, models, tools, and research findings. Additional real-world case studies across public health, global health, and health policy provide essential context to the major issues facing implementation domestically and globally, with consideration of communities in low-to-middle-income countries (LMIC).


The textbook is organized around the steps involved in planning, executing, and evaluating implementation efforts to improve health outcomes in communities. Coverage spans assessing the knowledge-practice gap; selecting an evidence-based practice (EBP) to reduce the gap; assessing EBP fit and adapting.


Practical Implementation Science is a valuable resource for anyone seeking to advance their understanding and skills in implementation science, particularly those working in public health and health systems.


Its comprehensive coverage of key topics, practical examples, and engaging writing style make it an essential tool for students and professionals alike. I highly recommend this textbook to anyone interested in improving health outcomes through effective implementation.

Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780826186928