Exploring the intersection of hermeneutics and implementation: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

An enduring challenge remains about how to effectively implement programs, services, or practices. Too often, implementation does not achieve its intended effectiveness, fidelity, and sustainability, even when frameworks or theories determine implementation strategies and actions. A different approach is needed. This scoping review joined two markedly different bodies of literature: implementation and hermeneutics. Implementation is usually depicted as focused, direct, and somewhat linear, while hermeneutics attends to the messiness of everyday experience and human interaction. Both, however, are concerned with practical solutions to real-life problems. The purpose of the scoping review was to summarize existing knowledge on how a hermeneutic approach has informed the pr

SUBMITTER: MacLeod MLP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9979573 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature