0600 T he contemporary public health effort sees much debate about the concepts of " evidence " and " the evidence base " , and the usefulness and relevance of such terms to both policymaking and practice. A key challenge to public health is to better contextualize evidence for more effective policymaking and practice. Theory on the translation of research fi ndings into policy and practice, an...

Diffusion is the process by which a new technology spreads in its usage among a population. This chapter analyses the diffusion process of one aspect of the consumer-tobusiness electronic commerce (EC) in Australia, namely Internet shopping. The chapter first reviews three popular logistics diffusion models from the literature and then applies them to the EC diffusion data. Results show that th...

In 1987 Ergas introduced the concepts of missionand diffusion-oriented policy designs to classify and analyse national systems of innovation. According to him, mission-oriented systems are characterised by centralisation and the concentration of policy support on a small number of technologies and larger firms, unlike diffusion-oriented systems which concentrate their policy efforts on increasi...

INTRODUCTION Nearly a century ago, Charles-Edward Amory Winslow, defined public health as “the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health and efficiency through organized community effort” (1). From health policy reforms to scientific advances with many technological innovations, a range of forces are converging to cause a seismic shift in how public health is ...