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An evaluation of knowledge translation in the South African primary healthcare setting
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/40777 An evaluation of knowledge translation in the South African primary healthcare setting Pretorius, Pieter ichelp@gibs.co.za Myburgh, Marcelle UCTD Knowledge translation Theory of Constraints Thinking processes Primary health care workers Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2013. Knowledge translation describes the process of getting knowledge into practice, leading to a healthy workforce and economy. Knowledge translation is particularly challenging at the primary healthcare level, which manifests as a research to practice gap. This research aimed to explore and describe knowledge translation from both a knowledge translation organisation’s and knowledge user’s point of view at the South African primary healthcare level. A qualitative dominant, mixed methods approach was used. Twelve semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine organisations to evaluate their knowledge translation strategies. An online survey collected responses from primary healthcare workers to assess their knowledge needs and preferences. Lastly, the Thinking Processes of Theory of Constraints were applied to the public sector to identify ways in which knowledge translation can be optimised within the Department of Health system. This research found that the organisations’ strategies were inextricably linked to the knowledge translation context. Barriers to knowledge translation in the public and private sector as well as urban and rural areas differed in many respects. Organisations were successful in overcoming many of these barriers, but barriers that reside at the Department of Health (DOH) policy level, remain difficult to address. The 82 survey respondents were mostly doctors from the urban private sector. They represented a distinct subset of practitioners who preferred using the internet to access knowledge and identified no significant barriers to staying up to date. The Thinking Processes identified possible solutions to getting new DOH guidelines into practice in a fast, reliable and coordinated manner. This requires increased collaboration between knowledge translation organisations and the DOH as well as the design of a system for updating the DOH guidelines on an annual basis. ccgibs2014 Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) MBA Unrestricted 2014-07-15T10:39:23Z 2014-07-15T10:39:23Z 2014-04-30 2013 Mini Dissertation Myburgh, M 2013, An evaluation of knowledge translation in the South African primary healthcare setting, MBA Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/40777> http://hdl.handle.net/2263/40777 en © 2014 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Knowledge translation Theory of Constraints Thinking processes Primary health care workers An evaluation of knowledge translation in the South African primary healthcare setting |
| title | An evaluation of knowledge translation in the South African primary healthcare setting |
| title_full | An evaluation of knowledge translation in the South African primary healthcare setting |
| title_fullStr | An evaluation of knowledge translation in the South African primary healthcare setting |
| title_full_unstemmed | An evaluation of knowledge translation in the South African primary healthcare setting |
| title_short | An evaluation of knowledge translation in the South African primary healthcare setting |
| title_sort | evaluation of knowledge translation in the south african primary healthcare setting |
| topic | UCTD Knowledge translation Theory of Constraints Thinking processes Primary health care workers |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/40777 |