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- The review explores how the idea of "best practices" has evolved from medicine to public health, particularly in the realm of health promotion.
- There are inconsistencies in applying this concept due to the diverse factors influencing health behavior, making it harder to generalize research across different groups and settings.
- The authors suggest that instead of focusing on fixed "best practices," health promotion should emphasize "best processes" to accommodate variability and improve effectiveness.
Article Abstract
Objective: To review the genesis and current status of best practices" thinking, its application in health promotion practice, and in generalizing research to alternate populations, places and times.
Methods: A presbyopic eye is cast over the recent evolution of the concept of "best practices" from medicine to public health.
Results: Some discontinuities are found in the migration of this concept from medicine, where it applies with some consistency to the relatively homogeneous physiology of the human species, to health behaviorwhere social, cultural, economic, and other heterogeneities make the generalizability of any research more suspect.
Conclusions: Health promotion and other applications of health behavioral research need to replace "best practices" with "best processes."
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