Capacity Building in Health Promotion is becoming a more widely discussed
topic in journals and research reports.
The following two articles appear in the most recent issue of the Health
Promotion International journal March 2004.
Defining and operationalizing capacity for heart health promotion in Nova
Scotia, Canada
by Christine Joffres, Stephanie Heath, Jane Farquharson, Kari Barkhouse,
Robert Hood, Celeste Latter, and David R. MacLean Health Promot.
Internation. 2004 19: 39-49.
http://heapro.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/19/1/39?etoc
Issues in measuring health promotion capacity in Canada: a multi-province
perspective
by Lori S. Ebbesen, Stephanie Heath, Patti-Jean Naylor, and Donna Anderson
Health Promot. Internation. 2004 19: 85-94.
http://heapro.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/19/1/85?etoc
These two articles are very relevant to my organization's health promotion
work, as we have been involved in defining health promotion capacity
building (see OPCs publication on Building Capacity in Health Promotion
http://www.opc.on.ca/english/our_programs/hlth_promo/resources/capacity_buil
ding.pdf ), and working with the Ontario Health Promotion Resource System
evaluation processes on measuring health promotion capacity (see
http://www.ohprs.ca/resources/publications.html#capreport).
I just received a notice of the release of the Health Policy Research
Program's latest report on the Conceptualization and Measurement of
Community Capacity. The notice in english and french follows.
The Applied Research and Analysis Directorate is pleased to announce the
release of the final report of the Health Policy Research Program project
entitled: Conceptualization and Measurement of Community Capacity.
This study reviewed and critically assessed the available evidence base
on the conceptualization and measurement of community capacity. Based on
this review, the research team developed a framework for community capacity
that organized the characteristics of community capacity into three levels
(individual, organizational and community) and across four dimensions
(context, resources, activities and outcomes). Despite a lack of consensus
in the literature on issues of measurement, the study showed that a broad
range of different types of indicators had been proposed or used to measure
community capacity. While emphasizing that the framework and list of
indicators presented was exploratory and descriptive rather than
prescriptive and predictive, the researchers closed by discussing the
implications of their work for policy, research and action.
Here is the link to the Executive Summary:
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/iacb-dgiac/arad-draa/english/rmdd/finalreport/reporti
ndex.html
La Direction de la recherche appliquée et de l'analyse a le plaisir
d'annoncer la publication du rapport final du projet Programme de
recherche sur les politiques en matière de santé intitulé :
Conceptualisation et mesure des capacités communautaires.
Cette étude de l'Université de la Colombie-Britannique, a passé en revue
la masse d'information disponible sur la conceptualisation et la mesure des
capacités communautaires et en a fait une évaluation critique. En s'appuyant
sur cette revue, l'équipe de recherche a élaboré un cadre relatif aux
capacités communautaires qui classait les caractéristiques des capacités
communautaires selon trois niveaux (individus, organismes, communauté) et
quatre aspects (contexte, ressources, activités, résultats). Malgré une
absence de consensus dans la littérature sur les questions de mesure,
l'étude a démontré qu'une vaste gamme de types d'indicateurs avaient été
proposés ou utilisés pour mesurer les capacités communautaires. Tout en
soulignant que le cadre et la liste d'indicateurs avaient une valeur
exploratoire et descriptive plutôt que prescriptive et prédictive, les
chercheurs ont terminé en parlant des répercussions de leur travail pour les
politiques, la recherche et les interventions.
Voici le lien menant au résumé :
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/iacb-dgiac/arad-draa/francais/dgdr/rapportfinal/frepo
rtindex.html
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health promotion consultant, Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse
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