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Country Prototypes and Translation of Health Programs
Steve Sussman*,
Jennifer B. Unger,
and
Lawrence A. Palinkas
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ssussma{at}usc.edu.
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This article introduces the topic of international translation of health programs. Different perspectives toward the study of national-level variables that are relevant to translation of evidence-based programming developed outside of or in a country are discussed. Concepts including national prototypes, national stereotypes, country clusters, knowledge incompatibility, and absorptive capacity are introduced. The ideas expressed in this article serve to provide direction when considering developing a health behavior program for a country, using previous programmatic knowledge from elsewhere.
First published on March 18, 2008, doi:10.1177/0163278708315918
Evaluation & the Health Professions 2008;31:110.
A more recent version of this article appeared on June 1, 2008

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