Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Jan 2006)

The knowledge-value chain: a conceptual framework for knowledge translation in health

  • Landry Réjean,
  • Amara Nabil,
  • Pablos-Mendes Ariel,
  • Shademani Ramesh,
  • Gold Irving

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 84, no. 8
pp. 597 – 602

Abstract

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This article briefly discusses knowledge translation and lists the problems associated with it. Then it uses knowledge-management literature to develop and propose a knowledge-value chain framework in order to provide an integrated conceptual model of knowledge management and application in public health organizations. The knowledge-value chain is a non-linear concept and is based on the management of five dyadic capabilities: mapping and acquisition, creation and destruction, integration and sharing/transfer, replication and protection, and performance and innovation.