Moving implementation science forward

Maternal vaccination: moving the science forward.

BACKGROUND Infections remain one of the leading causes of morbidity in pregnant women and newborns, with vaccine-preventable infections contributing significantly to the burden of disease. In the past decade, maternal vaccination has emerged as a promising public health strategy to prevent and combat maternal, fetal and neonatal infections. Despite a number of universally recommended maternal v...

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found similar seroconversion rates during the three trimesters of pregnancy (Sperling et al., 2012). Finally, the ability of pregnant women to respond to recall antigens was recently demonstrated in a randomized controlled trial of tetanus–diphtheria–acellular pertussis immunization. The immunogenicity was shown to be similar in pregnant and nonpregnantwomen (Munoz et al., 2014). In summary, B ...

Implementation Science: Moving from Theory to Sustainability

grown exponentially in the past decade, but the “Holy Grail” of reducing the time from a research finding to adoption in routine care remains elusive. While researchers have offered dozens of implementation models, theories, and frameworks, few outline specific pathways or strategies for accelerating the movement of research from the academic shelf into the hands of patients and practitioners. ...

Vitamin D: Moving Forward to Address Emerging Science

The science surrounding vitamin D presents both challenges and opportunities. Although many uncertainties are associated with the understandings concerning vitamin D, including its physiological function, the effects of excessive intake, and its role in health, it is at the same time a major interest in the research and health communities. The approach to evaluating and interpreting the availab...

Moving forward to 2014: global IHR (2005) implementation.