Developing a comprehensive definition of sustainability.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding sustainability is one of the significant implementation science challenges. One of the big challenges in researching sustainability is the lack of consistent definitions in the literature. Most implementation studies do not present a definition of sustainability, even when assessing sustainability. The aim of the current study was to systematically develop a comprehensive definition of sustainability based on definitions already used in the literature.

Methods

We searched for knowledge syntheses of sustainability and abstracted sustainability definitions from the articles identified through any relevant systematic and scoping reviews. The constructs in the abstracted sustainability definitions were mapped to an existing definition. The comprehensive

SUBMITTER: Moore JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5581411 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature