This is the website that summarizes the report entitled, “Diffusion of innovation in health care” written by Mary Cain and Robert Mittman and published in 2002. The report discusses ten critical dynamics of innovation diffusion
Review this website and identify the ten critical dynamics of diffusion.
California Health Care Foundation Report
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This is the website of CORE Group, a membership association of international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that promotes and improves the health of children and women in developing countries through collaborative NGO action and learning. In 2003-2004, CORE disbursed six awards to its members for diffusion of promising child health innovations to a larger audience. The winning innovations included a practical guide for Africa on Vitamin A supplementation, a guide for community-based volunteer health educators, partnership defined quality (PDQ) approach, barrier analysis manual, Census-Based, Impact-Oriented (CBIO) approach, and a safe motherhood program.
Review this website and read more about each of these six interventions. Which one did you like most and why?
CORE Diffusion of Innovations Initiative
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This is the website that presents an article by Everett M. Rogers and Karyn L. Scott entitled, “The Diffusion of Innovations Model and Outreach from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine to Native American Communities” written in 1997. The article summarizes lessons from 300 outreach projects.
Review this website and comment on outreach models and outreach strategies.
Diffusion of Innovations and Outreach
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This website summarizes a synthesis of the findings of the five studies of sustainability of primary health care innovation across six domains (political, institutional, financial, economic, client and workforce). Three major themes emerge from their analysis.
Review these three themes. What can you say about generalization for diffusion of innovations from this review?
Emergent themes in the sustainability of primary health care innovation
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This website presents the study by Chew and colleagues (2004) regarding the adoption of Internet by family physicians using Diffusion of Innovations theory. It summarizes the results about a survey of family physicians with regard to their Internet use and various strategies to increase the use.
Read this study and comment on how family physicians incorporate the Internet into their practice.
Internet use among doctors
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This website summarizes an article that addressing the question, “How can we spread and sustain innovations in health service delivery and organization?” The article describes both the content and the process used in arriving at the conclusions.
Read the article and identify key factors for sustaining innovations in health service organizations.
Milbank Quarterly Article
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This is the website of NASA headquarter library that summarizes articles and technical reports, books, and Internet sources on diffusion of innovations theory. The website was organized in 2000.
Review this website and locate a source or Internet site. Read and summarize what you learned.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Library
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This is the website from the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning & Literacy that summarizes the Diffusion of Innovations theory. The National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) is a federally funded research and development center focused on adult learning.
Read the account on the website and identify key components of Diffusion of innovations theory.
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning & Literacy (NCSALL)
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