New Advances in Population Health Intervention

Dear Colleagues,

PHIR has been defined as the use of scientific methods to develop knowledge about program or policy interventions operating within or outside of the health sector and that have the potential to affect the distribution of health risk factors or determinants in a population. Population health interventions (PHIs) are generally complex. Moreover, boundaries between them and their implementation contexts are blurred, or even arbitrary. Research processes and methods then have to take into account the complexity and effect of the context on intervention implementation and outcomes. It is a question of designs and methods, but also of the focus of the research: beyond the results, analyses of mechanisms and of transferability factors are necessary. It is also a question of how to conduct research, e.g., in interdisciplinarity and in association with stakeholders. These statements call for reform of questions guiding both research and methods used to answer them. We need, therefore, investment in meta-research (research on research). For this Special Issue, we invite submissions that examine challenges raised by these aspects, whether in terms of methods, types of studies, collaborative experience, disciplinary field, epistemological approach, likelihood of embracing the complexity of population health interventions, clarifying ways to consider the conditions of their effectiveness and transferability, etc.

Prof. Dr. François Alla
Dr. Linda Cambon
Guest Editors

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• intervention research
• meta-research
• complexity
• population health intervention
• context
• methodological innovation
• collaboration
• transferability