Table 2.
Overview of included conceptual literature
| Author | Year | Author location | Topic area | Focus | Name of model/theory/framework | Framework type [3] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aarons et al. [12] | 2011 | USA | Public services for children and families | Implementation | Conceptual model of global factors affecting implementation in public service sectors | Determinants framework |
| Bauman et al. [36] | 2006 | Australia (majority) | Physical activity | Supra-National | A Six-Step Framework for International Physical Activity Dissemination | Process model |
| Bowen et al. [37] | 2010 | USA | HIV | Organizational/program | Rogers-Rütten Framework | Determinants + evaluation framework |
| Bowen and Zwi [38] | 2005 | Australia | Public health | Knowledge translation | Evidence-informed Policy and Practice Pathway | Determinants framework |
| Bruns et al. [39] | 2008 | USA | Children and youth | System (state) | No name per se but addresses dimensions of state EBP implementation effort | Determinants framework |
| Burris et al. [40] | 2012 | USA | Public health | System (law) | No name per se but unified framework integrating public health law and public health systems and services | Determinants framework |
| Campos and Reich [41] | 2019 | USA | Health | Policy, politics and stakeholders | No name but identifies six different directions for different stakeholders | Process model |
| Chaudoir et al. [9]a | 2013 | USA | Health | System (measures of determinants) | A multi-level framework predicting implementation outcomes | Determinants framework |
| Cherney and Head [42] | 2011 | Australia | Evidence-based policy/practice | System | Components of a Support Delivery System: ‘9Cs’ | Determinants framework |
| Chin and Goldmann [43] | 2011 | USA | Health | System | A Conceptual Model for Specifically Addressing Disparities 6 Key Levels of Influence | Implementation theory |
| Damschroder et al. [7] | 2009 | USA | Health | Organizational | Consolidated Framework for Advancing Implementation Research (CFIR) | Determinants framework |
| Domitrovich et al. [44] | 2008 | USA | Schools | Implementation quality | No name per se but identified as factors that can affect implementation quality: a multi-level model | Determinants framework |
| Evans and Davies [45], and Dolowitz and March [46] | 1999 and 2000 | UK and UK | Policy transfer | Policy | Policy transfer | Determinants framework |
| Feldstein and Glasgow [47] | 2008 | USA | Healthcare | Research to practice implementation | PRISM (Practical, Robust Implementation and Sustainability Model) | Process model |
| Fleuren et al. [48] | 2014 | Netherlands | Healthcare | Organizational/program | No name per se but “Framework representing the innovation process and related categories of determinants” | Determinants framework |
| Godfrey [49] | 2011 | USA | Mental health | System | Hypothesized factors that influence ACT implementation | Determinants framework |
| Green et al. [50] | 2006 | USA | Physical activity | Knowledge translation | Push-Pull Capacity Model | Process model |
| Greenhalgh et al. [26] | 2004 | UK | Healthcare | Organizational | Diffusion of Innovations in Service Organizations | Determinants framework |
| Greig et al. [51] | 2012 | UK | Healthcare | Implementation activity/practices | Activity Theory | Classic theory |
| Harris et al. [52] | 2012 | USA | Health promotion | Organizational | Health Promotion Resource Center Dissemination Framework | Process model |
| Harvey and Kitson [53] | 2016 | Australia | Health services | Implementation | Integrated Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services (I-PARIHS) | Determinants framework |
| Hendriks et al. [54] | 2013 | Netherlands | Public health (childhood obesity) | Policy | Behavior Change Ball | Implementation theory |
| Hill and Hupe [55] | 2003 | UK and Netherlands | Policy implementation | Policy | No model/theory or framework but discussed ‘the multi-layer problem’ | N/A |
| Hill and Hupe [56] | 2002 | UK and Netherlands | Policy implementation | Policy | N/A (book) | Determinants framework |
| Hodges and Ferreira [57] | 2013 | USA | Children and families | Policy (local) | Multilevel framework for local policy development and implementation | Determinants framework |
| Howlett [58] | 2004 | Canada | Policy implementation | Policy (instruments) | N/A | Other (most closely resembles Classic Theory) |
| Hupe [59] | 2011 | Netherlands | Policy implementation | Explaining policy implementation | Thesis of incongruent implementation | Determinants framework |
| Hupe and Hill [60] | 2016 | Netherlands and UK | Policy implementation | Policy | N/A | N/A |
| Jansen [61] | 2010 | Netherlands | Public health | Disconnections between policy, practice and research | 3 niches of public health | Process model + determinants framework |
| Jilcott et al. [62] | 2007 | USA | Public health | Evaluating policy implementation | Applying the RE-AIM framework to assess the public health impact of policy change | Evaluation framework |
| Johansson [11] | 2010 | Sweden | Human services | Policy | N/A | N/A |
| Leeman et al. [63] | 2012 | USA | Obesity prevention | Policy | Center TRT’s evaluation framework | Evaluation framework |
| Lipsky [13] | 1980 | USA | Social services | Policy and individual | Street-Level Bureaucracy | Implementation theory |
| Matland [64] | 1995 | USA | Policy implementation | Policy | Ambiguity-Conflict Model of Implementation | Implementation theory |
| Mendel et al. [65] | 2008 | USA | Mental health | Organizational/community | Framework of Dissemination in Health Services Intervention Research | Process framework (2nd) |
| Michie [66] | 2011 | UK | Behavior change (EBPs) | Individual | The Behaviour Change Wheel | Implementation theory + determinants framework |
| Moulton and Sandfort [67] | 2017 | USA | Public service interventions | Policy | The Strategic Action Field Framework | Implementation theory |
| Pettigrew and Whip [68] | 1992 | UK | Business | Organizational/firm | Understanding strategic change: three essential dimensions (Warwick Framework) | Classic theory |
| Proctor et al. [69] | 2011 | USA | Mental health | Implementation outcomes | Conceptual Model of Implementation Research | Evaluation framework |
| Raghavan et al. [70] | 2008 | USA | Mental health | Policy | A Policy Ecology of Implementation | Determinants framework |
| Rutten et al. [71] | 2003 | Germany/Europe | Health promotion | Policy | Determinants of policy analysis | Determinants framework + classic theory |
| Sabatier and Mazmanian [14] | 1980 | USA | Policy implementation | Policy | Framework of Analysis for the Implementation of Public Policy | Determinants framework + process model |
| Schoenwald et al. [72]a | 2008 | USA | Mental health | System | Conceptual model for the MacArthur research network on youth mental health child STEPs initiative on evidence-based practice in clinics and systems | Determinants framework |
| Shortell [73] | 2004 | USA | Health care | System | N/A; levels and associated assumptions about change | Implementation theory |
| Spoth et al. [74] | 2013 | USA | Public health/prevention | Population | Translation Science to Population Impact (TSci Impact) framework | Process model |
| Strehlenert et al. [75] | 2015 | Sweden | Health and social care | Policy | Conceptual Model for Evidence-Informed Policy Formulation and Implementation | Process model |
| Thomann et al. [76] | 2017 | Germany | Policy implementation | Policy | Extended Accountability Regimes Framework | Implementation theory |
| VanDeusen Lukas et al. [77] | 2007 | USA | Heath care | Organizational | Framework for Organizational Transformation | Classic theory |
| Viennet and Pont [78] | 2017 | International | Education | Policy | Education Policy Implementation Framework | Determinants framework and implementation theory |
| Wandersman et al. [79] | 2016 | USA | Empowerment evaluation | Innovation and system interface | Getting to Outcomes | Process model |
| Wisdom et al. [80] | 2014 | USA | Innovation adoption | System | N/A | Determinants framework |
aAlso included in empirical literature