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Knowledge Management in the Urban Health Context: Moving Towards Tacit-to-Tacit Knowledge Transfer

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Knowledge Management (KM) has made a significant impact on the global healthcare sector. However, it is important to address the link between knowledge, information and engineering. This paper discusses how concepts from the established KM field can be applied to the area of urban health. Explicit and tacit modes of knowledge transfer are presented and discussed. We conclude by advocating “tacit-to-tacit” knowledge transfer as the most useful method to overcoming knowledge gaps in the urban health setting.

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  1. Knowledge Management for Healthcare (KARMAH) subgroup, Biomedical Computing and Engineering Technologies, (BIOCORE) Applied Research Group, Health Design and Technology Institute (HDTI), COVENTRY UNIVERSITY, Puma Way, COVENTRY, West Midlands, CV1 2TT, UK

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  1. Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute, E. Monument St. 2013, Baltimore, 21205, Maryland, USA

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  2. Health Design and Technology Institute (, Knowledge Management for Healthcare (KAR, Coventry University, Puma Way, Coventry, CV1 2TT, United Kingdom

    Rajeev Bali

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Bali, R.K., Baskaran, V., Naguib, R.N.G. (2010). Knowledge Management in the Urban Health Context: Moving Towards Tacit-to-Tacit Knowledge Transfer. In: Gibbons, M., Bali, R., Wickramasinghe, N. (eds) Perspectives of Knowledge Management in Urban Health. Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age, vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5644-6_3

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