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Community-Based Knowledge Translation: Unexplored Opportunities, Anita Kothari, Rebecca Armstrong
Community-Based Knowledge Translation: Unexplored Opportunities, Anita Kothari, Rebecca Armstrong
Anita Kothari
BACKGROUND: Knowledge translation is an interactive process of knowledge exchange between health researchers and knowledge users. Given that the health system is broad in scope, it is important to reflect on how definitions and applications of knowledge translation might differ by setting and focus. Community-based organizations and their practitioners share common characteristics related to their setting, the evidence used in this setting, and anticipated outcomes that are not, in our experience, satisfactorily reflected in current knowledge translation approaches, frameworks, or tools.
DISCUSSION: Community-based organizations face a distinctive set of challenges and concerns related to engaging in the knowledge translation process, …