The concept of mechanism from a realist approach: a scoping review to facilitate its operationalization in public health program evaluation

Lacouture, Anthony; Breton, Éric; Guichard, Anne; Ridde, Valéry

doi:10.1186/s13012-015-0345-7

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The concept of mechanism from a realist approach: a scoping review to facilitate its operationalization in public health program evaluation

Published in Implementation Science • Oct 30, 2015

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Anthony Lacouture

Éric Breton

Anne Guichard

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Public health interventions are complex by nature, and their evaluation requires unpacking their intervention logic and their interactions with open social systems. By focusing on the interrelationships between context, mechanism, and outcome, Pawson and Tilley's realist approach appears...

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