Table 1 Definitions used in this paper

Broader health system

Includes the actors, resources, systems, policies, and processes related to the provision of healthcare in each setting

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Core components of an intervention

The main and essential elements that compose an intervention and are understood to be needed for it to work as expected

[18, 39]

Implementation of revised practices

The individual or collective set of efforts and actions to bring research recommendations into routinely revised practices for public health

[17, 40]

Frontline actor (s)

Individuals and groups that encounter each other in health care settings to provide care, including community health workers or lay providers. Used interchangeably with implementing actor

[41, 42]

New empirical findings

Research results that bring a new form of knowledge and imply a change in practice

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Peripheral component of an intervention

A component that is not the core of the intervention and can be modified, for example the modalities through which an intervention is delivered

[18]

Scientific knowledge

Used interchangeably with empirically validated research results. Findings resulting from a scientific and empirical process including qualitative and quantitative methods

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