Part Two: Applying Anthropology in Implementation Science to Improve Healthcare and Health

Applying Anthropology in Implementation Science to Improve Healthcare and Health, Part II (SMA) 

 

CHAIRS: HEURTIN-ROBERTS, Suzanne (NCI, UMD) and HAMILTON, Alison B. (VA, UCLA) HARROD, Molly (VA) Who’s at Risk?: Understanding Healthcare Workers‚ Beliefs about the Necessity of Medical Practice Change

 

FIX, Gemmae M., SOLOMON, Jeffrey L., MUELLER, Nora, VANDEUSEN LUKAS, Carol, and BOKHOUR, Barbara G. (VA) Hospital Staff Perceptions of the “Journey” to Patient-centered Care 

 

CHENEY, Ann M., FORTNEY, John, PYNE, Jeffrey, and CURRAN, Geoffrey (CAVHS, UAMS) The Value of Connectedness in Student Veteran’s Models of Screening and Linkage-to-Care Interventions 

 

CADZOW, Renee B. (DYC) Urban LowIncome Adolescent Perceptions of Breastfeeding: Implications for Public Health Promotion

 

ZUCHOWSKI, Jessica (VA) Implementation, Interview, and Investment: Evaluating the VA’s Patient-Centered Medical Home Transformation

 

DISCUSSANT: GLASGOW, Russell (UC-Denver) 

Applying Anthropology in Implementation Science to Improve Healthcare and Health, Parts I-II. A broad gap exists between health research findings and their real world implementation, which the interdisciplinary and still emerging field of implementation science (I.S.) seeks to bridge.  Applied anthropology has a strong role to play in the development of implementation science as both strive to solve human problems in dynamic, complex, real-world settings, in real time.  This panel presents several anthropologists’ work in implementation science as examples of what applied anthropology can offer.  We will discuss how anthropology can and does clearly strengthen the implementation of health innovations.  We will also consider some of the challenges met by implementation science as it matures.

 

Session took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.