title: Health promotion dissemination and systems thinking: towards an integrative model.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To help close the gap between health promotion research and practice by using systems thinking.
  
  
  METHODS
  We reviewed 3 national US tobacco control initiatives and a project (ISIS) that had introduced systems thinking to tobacco control, speculating on ways in which systems thinking may add value to health promotion dissemination and implementation in general.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The diversity of disciplines involved in tobacco control have created disconnection in the field; systems thinking is necessary to increase the impact of strategies.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Systems thinking has potential to improve synthesis, translation, and dissemination of research findings in other health promotion initiatives.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, Vancouver Hospital and Health Centre, Canada. alan.best@ubc.ca
authors.forename: Allan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Best
authors.forename: Gregg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Moor
authors.forename: Bev
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Holmes
authors.forename: Pamela I
authors.initials: PI
authors.lastname: Clark
authors.forename: Ted
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bruce
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Leischow
authors.forename: Kaye
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Buchholz
authors.forename: Judith
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Krajnak
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000379:methods*; D012907:Smoking / Q000523:psychology; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D013598:Systems Theory; D020340:Tobacco Use Cessation / Q000379:methods* / Q000523:psychology; D014481:United States