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Editorial
. 2016 Aug 8;1(2):e000115.
doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2016-000115. eCollection 2016.

Need for more and better implementation science in global health

Valéry Ridde  1   2
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Editorial

Need for more and better implementation science in global health

Valéry Ridde. BMJ Glob Health. .
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Competing interests: VR is a BMJ Global Health Associate Editor.

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Global health and implementation science papers from 1970 to 2015. Two rapid bibliographic searches using PubMed database were performed. Search 1, in order to obtain all references about global health, the following was used: [Global health (MeSH, major topic) OR international health (title / abstract)], given that the MeSH term was introduced only recently. In order to exclude interventions studies about pharmaceutical treatment, the following terms were added: NOT [pharmaceutic (Title/Abstract) OR drug (Title/Abstract) OR vaccine (Title/Abstract)]. Results of search 1 are presented with the black line (left axis) per year since 1970. Search 2, in order to extract in these results, studies focusing on implementation science, the following terms were added: AND [implementation (Title/Abstract)]. Results of search 2 are presented with the red line (left axis) per year since 1970. In the blue dotted line (right axis) the calculated percentage of references focusing on implementation science (search 2) in the global health area of research (search 1).Data analysis performed by Stéphanie Degroote.
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