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Beyond bridging the know-do gap: a qualitative study of systemic interaction to foster knowledge exchange in the public health sector in The Netherlands

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, September 2015
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Title
Beyond bridging the know-do gap: a qualitative study of systemic interaction to foster knowledge exchange in the public health sector in The Netherlands
Published in
BMC Public Health, September 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12889-015-2271-7
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Francine van den Driessen Mareeuw, Lenneke Vaandrager, Laurens Klerkx, Jenneken Naaldenberg, Maria Koelen

Abstract

Despite considerable attention currently being given to facilitating the use of research results in public health practice, several concerns remain, resulting in the so-called know-do gap. This article aims to identify the key tensions causing the know-do gap from a broad perspective by using a systemic approach and considering the public health sector as an innovation system. An exploratory qualitative design including in-depth semi-structured interviews was used, with 33 interviewees from different actor categories in the Dutch public health innovation system. The analyses employed an innovation system matrix to highlight the principal tensions causing the know-do gap. Seven key tensions were identified, including: research priorities determined by powerful players; no consensus about criteria for knowledge quality; different perceptions about the knowledge broker role; competition engendering fragmentation; thematic funding engendering fragmentation; predominance of passive knowledge sharing; and lack of capacity among users to use and influence research. The identified tensions indicate that bridging the know-do gap requires much more than linking research to practice or translating knowledge. An innovation system perspective is crucial in providing information on the total picture of knowledge exchange within the Dutch public health sector. Such a system includes broader stakeholder involvement as well as the creation of social, economic, and contextual conditions (achieving shared visions, building networks, institutional change, removing financial and infrastructural barriers), as these create conducive factors at several system levels and induce knowledge co-creation and innovation.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 147 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 33 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 11%
Student > Master 16 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 13 9%
Student > Bachelor 11 7%
Other 27 18%
Unknown 33 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 33 22%
Medicine and Dentistry 21 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 8 5%
Engineering 7 5%
Other 27 18%
Unknown 45 30%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 September 2022.
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#6,925,649
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#7,277
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#80,133
of 277,791 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#125
of 288 outputs
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