For this reason, current social states can be far more fragile than is generally thought--as small shocks to publicly endorsed norms and roles decrease the cost of displaying deviant norms, and rapidly bring about large-scale changes in publicly displayed judgment and desires.
Ultimately, to bring about large-scale changes in practice, information on performance at all levels will need to be made routinely available a process that will require substantial changes in health information systems, including automated entry of essential data for clinical decision-making [ 24].
From the sensitivity analysis carried out, it seems that technological development does not have a sufficient effect on adoption rates to bring about large-scale change in home heating.
Starting a quality improvement collaborative (QIC) is a widely used implementation strategy, with the intention to bring about large-scale change in health care [ 1, 2].
Agricultural intensification in Northern Ireland has brought about large-scale changes to the landscape with a detrimental effect on biodiversity.
We have taken Demba's theory and our learning from the past 15 years and applied it to our Generational Change in Three Years campaign which aims to partner with 1,000 communities at the same time across the region to bring about large-scale social change.
It argues that climate change will bring about large-scale, harmful consequences for habitability for life on Earth including humans, which it is too late to prevent.
Mobilising the amount of capital needed to bring about large-scale diffusion of offshore wind power will require innovative financial solutions.
There is evidence that modest changes in risk factor levels can bring about large improvements in health and thus reduce this burden of care [ 1].
Such reductions in mortality would bring about large gains in child survival in sub-Saharan Africa if these programmes were implemented at scale.
The point is, millions of people will always be uneasy about large-scale change.
