Scaling up population health interventions from decision to sustainability - a window of opportunity? A qualitative view from policy-makers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While known efficacious preventive health interventions exist, the current capacity to scale up these interventions is limited. In recent years, much attention has focussed on developing frameworks and methods for scale-up yet, in practice, the pathway for scale-up is seldom linear and may be highly dependent on contextual circumstances. Few studies have examined the process of scaling up from decision to implementation nor examined the sustainability of scaled-up interventions. This study explores decision-makers' perceptions from real-world scaled-up case studies to examine how scale-up decisions were made and describe enablers of successful scale-up and sustainability.

Methods

This qualitative study included 29 interviews conducted with purposively sampled key

SUBMITTER: Lee K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7547476 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature