volume 329 issue 7475 pages 1177-1179

The power of positive deviance

DAVID R. MARSH 1
Dirk G Schroeder 2
Kirk A Dearden 3
Jerry Sternin 4
Monique Sternin 5
Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2004-11-11
BMJ
scimago Q1
wos Q1
SJR2.976
CiteScore20.4
Impact factor42.7
ISSN09598146, 17561833, 09598138, 14685833, 00071447
General Medicine
General Engineering
General Environmental Science
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Abstract

Identifying individuals with better outcome than their peers (positive deviance) and enabling communities to adopt the behaviours that explain the improved outcome are powerful methods of producing change

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MARSH D. R. et al. The power of positive deviance // BMJ. 2004. Vol. 329. No. 7475. pp. 1177-1179.
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MARSH D. R., Schroeder D. G., Dearden K. A., Sternin J., Sternin M. The power of positive deviance // BMJ. 2004. Vol. 329. No. 7475. pp. 1177-1179.
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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1177
UR - https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1177
TI - The power of positive deviance
T2 - BMJ
AU - MARSH, DAVID R.
AU - Schroeder, Dirk G
AU - Dearden, Kirk A
AU - Sternin, Jerry
AU - Sternin, Monique
PY - 2004
DA - 2004/11/11
PB - BMJ
SP - 1177-1179
IS - 7475
VL - 329
PMID - 15539680
SN - 0959-8146
SN - 1756-1833
SN - 0959-8138
SN - 1468-5833
SN - 0007-1447
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@article{2004_MARSH,
author = {DAVID R. MARSH and Dirk G Schroeder and Kirk A Dearden and Jerry Sternin and Monique Sternin},
title = {The power of positive deviance},
journal = {BMJ},
year = {2004},
volume = {329},
publisher = {BMJ},
month = {nov},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1177},
number = {7475},
pages = {1177--1179},
doi = {10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1177}
}
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MARSH, DAVID R., et al. “The power of positive deviance.” BMJ, vol. 329, no. 7475, Nov. 2004, pp. 1177-1179. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1177.