The DOI matches its Crossref record; 53 of the 53 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Getting the Word Out: New Approaches for Disseminating Public Health Science
Open accessAbstract
The gap between discovery of public health knowledge and application in practice settings and policy development is due in part to ineffective dissemination. This article describes (1) lessons related to dissemination from related disciplines (eg, communication, agriculture, social marketing, political science), (2) current practices among researchers, (3) key audience characteristics, (4) available tools for dissemination, and (5) measures of impact. Dissemination efforts need to take into account the message, source, audience, and channel. Practitioners and policy makers can be more effectively reached via news media, social media, issue or policy briefs, one-on-one meetings, and workshops and seminars. Numerous “upstream” and “midstream” indicators of impact include changes in public perception or awareness, greater use of evidence-based interventions, and changes in policy. By employing ideas outlined in this article, scientific discoveries are more likely to be applied in public health agencies and policy-making bodies.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
Shannon, C. E. (1948) · Bell System Technical Journal · doi:10.1002/j.1538-7305.1948.tb01338.x · Cited by 88,486
The diffusion of hybrid seed corn in two Iowa communities
Ryan, B. (1943) · Rural Sociology · Cited by 1,429
Social Marketing: An Approach to Planned Social Change
Kotler, P., & Zaltman, G. (1971) · Journal of Marketing · doi:10.1177/002224297103500302 · Cited by 1,425
Bridging Research and Practice
Tabak, R. G., Khoong, E. C., Chambers, D. A., & Brownson, R. C. (2012) · American Journal of Preventive Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2012.05.024 · Cited by 1,386
Self-citationEysenbach, G. (2011) · Journal of Medical Internet Research · doi:10.2196/jmir.2012 · Cited by 1,083
Diffusion Theory and Knowledge Dissemination, Utilization, and Integration in Public Health
Green, L. W., Ottoson, J. M., García, C., & Hiatt, R. A. (2009) · Annual Review of Public Health · doi:10.1146/annurev.publhealth.031308.100049 · Cited by 953
Do Altmetrics Work? Twitter and Ten Other Social Web Services
Thelwall, M., Haustein, S., Larivière, V., & Sugimoto, C. R. (2013) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064841 · Cited by 907
Visualizing Uncertainty About the Future
Spiegelhalter, D., Pearson, M., & Short, I. (2011) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1191181 · Cited by 682 · cited 1×
“The newer approaches to data visualization (eg, infographics) help in presenting data in an accessible and appealing way to practitioners and policy makers who are often inundated with information.(73,74) It is also important to include expected benefits from what is being proposed or described.”
Ennett, S. T., Tobler, N. S., Ringwalt, C. L., & Flewelling, R. L. (1994) · American Journal of Public Health · doi:10.2105/ajph.84.9.1394 · Cited by 655
Brownson, R. C., Royer, C., Ewing, R., & McBride, T. D. (2006) · American Journal of Preventive Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2005.10.004 · Cited by 439
Self-citation
Cited by
Social media for rapid knowledge dissemination: early experience from the COVID ‐19 pandemic
Chan, A. K. M., Nickson, C. P., Rudolph, J. W., Lee, A., & Joynt, G. M. (2020) · Anaesthesia · doi:10.1111/anae.15057 · Cited by 459
Balis, L. E., Houghtaling, B., & Harden, S. M. (2022) · Translational Behavioral Medicine · doi:10.1093/tbm/ibac061 · Cited by 63
Stimulating the intention to change learning strategies: The role of narratives
Hui, L., de Bruin, A. B. H., Donkers, J., & van Merriënboer, J. J. G. (2021) · International Journal of Educational Research · doi:10.1016/j.ijer.2021.101753 · Cited by 25
Mazzucca, S., Jacob, R. R., Valko, C. A., Macchi, M., & Brownson, R. C. (2021) · Public Health Reports® · doi:10.1177/0033354920984159 · Cited by 9
Self-citation
Metadata
- Authors
- Brownson, R. C., Eyler, A. A., Harris, J. K., Moore, J. B., & Tabak, R. G.
- Venue
- Journal of Public Health Management and Practice
- Published
- 2018-03
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 102-111
- ISSN
- 1078-4659 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2912771962
- Cited by
- 445
- References
- 53
- FWCI
- 35.14
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Getting the Word Out: New Approaches for Disseminating Public Health Science. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1097/phh.0000000000000673
- The paper
- Brownson, R. C., Eyler, A. A., Harris, J. K., Moore, J. B., & Tabak, R. G. (2018). Getting the Word Out: New Approaches for Disseminating Public Health Science. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1097/phh.0000000000000673
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
