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Organizational change: key to capacity building and effective health promotion
Heward, Sue; Hutchins, Cheryl; Keleher, Helen.
Afiliação
  • Heward, Sue; Vision 2020. Australia
  • Hutchins, Cheryl; ACT Health Promotion Authority (Healthpact). Australia
  • Keleher, Helen; Monash University. Department of Health Science. Australia
Health Promot. Int ; 22(2): 170-178, Jun. 2007. ilus
Artigo em Inglês | CidSaúde - Cidades saudáveis | ID: cid-59577
Biblioteca responsável: BR67.1
Localização: BR67.1
ABSTRACT
Contemporary health promotion is now a well-defined discipline with a strong (albeit diverse) theoretical base, proven technologies (based on program planning) for addressing complex social problems, processes to guide practice and a body of evidence of efficacy and increasingly, effectiveness. Health promotion has evolved principally within the health sector where it is frequently considered optional rather than core business. To maximize effectiveness, quality health promotion technologies and practices need to be adopted as core business by the health sector and by organizations in other sectors. It has proven difficult to develop the infrastructure, workforce and resource base needed to ensure the routine introduction of high-quality health promotion into organizations. Recognizing these problems, this paper explores the use of organizational theory and practice in building the capacity of organizations to design, deliver and evaluate health promotion effectively and efficiently. The paper argues that organizational change is an essential but under-recognized function for the sustainability of health promotion practice and a necessary component of capacity-building frameworks. The interdependence of quality health promotion with organizational change is discussed in this paper through three case studies. While each focused on different aspects of health promotion development, the centrality of organizational change in each of them was striking. This paper draws out elements of organizational change to demonstrate that health promotion specialists and practitioners, wherever they are located, should be building organizational change into both their practice and capacity-building frameworks because without it, effectiveness and sustainability are at risk. (AU)
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Coleções: Bases de dados temática Base de dados: CidSaúde - Cidades saudáveis Assunto principal: Avaliação de Programas e Projetos de Saúde / Promoção da Saúde Tipo de estudo: Estudo de avaliação País/Região como assunto: Oceania Idioma: Inglês Revista: Health Promot. Int Ano de publicação: 2007 Tipo de documento: Artigo Instituição/País de afiliação: ACT Health Promotion Authority (Healthpact)/Australia / Monash University/Australia / Vision 2020/Australia
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Coleções: Bases de dados temática Base de dados: CidSaúde - Cidades saudáveis Assunto principal: Avaliação de Programas e Projetos de Saúde / Promoção da Saúde Tipo de estudo: Estudo de avaliação País/Região como assunto: Oceania Idioma: Inglês Revista: Health Promot. Int Ano de publicação: 2007 Tipo de documento: Artigo Instituição/País de afiliação: ACT Health Promotion Authority (Healthpact)/Australia / Monash University/Australia / Vision 2020/Australia
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