Implementing Health Apps for Digital Public Health - An Implementation Science Approach Adopting the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research.

ABSTRACT: Apps are becoming an increasingly important component of modern Public Health and health care. However, successful implementation of apps does not come without challenges. The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) provides a central typology to support the development of implementation theories and the examination of what works where and why in different contexts. The framework offers a reasonable structure for managing complex, interacting, multi-level, and transient states of constructs in the real world: It draws on constructs from other implementation theories and might be used to conduct formative evaluations or build a common body of knowledge for implementation thru various studies and settings. In a synthesis of the original English language text describing the

SUBMITTER: Wienert J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8137849 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature