An extensive needs assessment, comprised of 59 qualitative interviews with researchers and health systems employees in Canada with an interest in KT, served as the basis for our programme theory design. METHODS: We used a mixed-methods approach to develop the KT Platform's programme theory and subsequently conducted the formative evaluation. This article presents the programme theory development and a formative evaluation of the KT Platform in Alberta's SPOR SUPPORT Unit. One aspect of SPOR is the provincial/territorial SUpport for People and Patient-Oriented Research and Trials (SUPPORT) Units, intended to assist local health researchers and systems to reach the goal of improving the quality and quantity of patient-oriented research in Canada. Canada's Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) is a nationally mandated and supported initiative developed to respond to the gap between research and practice. Knowledge translation (KT) has an important role in addressing this gap by bolstering evidence-informed healthcare.
, Necessidades e Demandas de Serviços de SaúdeīACKGROUND: Research shows a significant gap between healthcare research and evidence-based healthcare policy and practice. , Obesidade Pediátrica/prevenção & controle We outline the policy actions, governance and accountability mechanisms needed to tackle this global epidemic. Leading-edge fiscal and regulatory strategies face aggressive, often effective, opposition from lobby groups. Genuinely comprehensive, long-term population-wide approaches are scant. The most cost-effective policy actions are rarely selected, or only partially adopted. Evidence based policy actions and interventions are available to build a comprehensive approach to overweight and obesity but, in most countries, a narrow selection of interventions are chosen, often implemented over short time periods and typically with small-scale investment. Policy responses across the world have been piecemeal. Rates of childhood overweight and obesity have reached alarming proportions in many countries and pose an urgent and serious challenge. This is the message and medicine of Tracy Chapman’s “The Promise.Overweight and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the lifecourse. In remembering a loved one, we are loved by them. In the present moment, our emotions shift to what they were inside that memory. In remembering, we come together with the past.
I’ll return and fill that space in your heart When we reach out for comfort and guidance, they lean back toward us. We are the intricate tapestry of millions of lives that have come before us. This remembering is sometimes as subtle as noticing a subconscious habit or thought pattern and trying to understand this thing that was learned somewhere along the way. We remember those who are no longer physically present with us, and they, in turn, guide our lives with their wisdom and experience. Until very recently in human history, the concept of a reciprocal relationship between the living and the dead (the ancestors) was understood, and in many parts of the world it still is.
Here, the heart is the site of remembering that transcends space and time.