How to Facilitate Social Contagion?

Document Type : Perspective

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Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Abstract

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals has proven to be a real challenge. Providing evidence on cost-effective interventions did not prove to be sufficient to secure the trust of national authorities, health care providers and patients. Introducing change in a health system requires a good understanding of the relationships between the actors of the system. Social network analysis can provide a new avenue to analyse the diffusion of innovations within a health system or a health organisation and analyse the structure and the properties of a health system. Evidence has been generated on the necessity of not only identifying the actors of a system but also qualifying the relationships between these actors.

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  • Receive Date: 02 July 2013
  • Revise Date: 22 July 2013
  • Accept Date: 15 August 2013
  • First Publish Date: 19 August 2013

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