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“Translation” is the process of adapting theoretical principles and empirical findings from research so that these can be applied in the real-world contexts of clinical and public health practice (Sung et al. 2003; Westfall et al. 2007; Woolf 2008). In translational behavioral medicine (TBM), knowledge from the basic psychosocial, behavioral, and biomedical sciences is applied to develop behavioral interventions to improve health, evaluate the effectiveness of those interventions, and study how to improve their implementation in practice and policy. The overarching objective of TBM is to advance, integrate, and actualize knowledge from the research, practice, and policy arenas to improve the health of individuals and communities. To advance progress in translating behavioral science knowledge to improved health, a new scholarly professional journal, Translation...
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Spring, B., Fidler Pfammatter, A., Hoffman, S.A., Warnick, J.L. (2020). Translational Behavioral Medicine. In: Gellman, M.D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39903-0_221
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