Closing the Gap between Injury Prevention Research and Community Safety Promotion Practice: Revisiting the Public Health Model

Closing the chasm between research and practice: evidence of and for change

“…Crediting John Snow alone with this public health success, however, underplays the importance of some very important others and their collaborative and parallel approaches to identifying the problem, gathering evidence, and the translation of this evidence into policy and practice, as noted by Hanson et al 12 Sir Edwin Chadwick, a politician who did not like smells, wanted to clean up all of those neighbourhoods and his campaigns through Parliament were a very large part of the story of policymaker and practitioner receptivity to the evidence John Snow brought on the Broad Street problem. Reverend Henry Whitehead was a community activist and his role is written about increasingly as people try to understand the dynamics that led to the changes.…”

“…William Farr was a bureaucrat and statistician who kept the records in the Ministry of Health, such as it was at that time. 13 It was the combination of these several individuals that gave momentum and closure to what we now call the London case study in epidemiology and community intervention, a milestone and benchmark for public health reform 12 and for the importance of practice-based and community-based evidence. 14,15 Alternatives to and enhancements of RCT The prevailing standard of evidence is the RCT, but this has its limitations in community-based programs.…”

Using The RE-AIM Framework To Evaluate A Community-based Smoke Alarm Installation Program

“…As suggested by Hanson, it is useful to assess the broader population impact of a public health program, using dimensions such as implementation and maintenance, in a real world setting. 21 The five RE-AIM dimensions provided insight into areas to focus our future activities for improvement of OI. The RE-AIM model may be a beneficial tool in evaluating other injury prevention programs as well.…”

Twenty years of scientific progress in injury and violence research and the next public health frontier

“…However, the public health model provides little insight into how scientists and public health practitioners translate effective interventions into successful programs and scale up to reach target populations (Hanson, Finch, Allegrante, & Sleet, 2012). Recognizing that the mere availability of evidence-based strategies was insufficient to achieve widespread adoption, scientists in the Injury Center's Division of Violence Prevention worked with external partners to develop a framework to guide the process of translation, this led to the development of the Interactive Systems Framework for Dissemination and Implementation (ISF) (Wandersman et al, 2008).…”