Integrating collaborative place-based health promotion coalitions into existing health system structures: the experience from one Australian health coalition
<p><strong>Background: </strong>Increasingly, place-based collaborative partnerships are being implemented to develop the capacity of communities to build supportive environments and improve population health outcomes. These place-based initiatives require cooperative and coordinat...
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doaj-190c7a6d59914e8e85253e756f958dbc2020-11-24T23:27:11ZengUbiquity PressInternational Journal of Integrated Care1568-41562015-12-011542073Integrating collaborative place-based health promotion coalitions into existing health system structures: the experience from one Australian health coalitionCarolyn Ehrlich0Elizabeth KendallGriffith University<p><strong>Background: </strong>Increasingly, place-based collaborative partnerships are being implemented to develop the capacity of communities to build supportive environments and improve population health outcomes. These place-based initiatives require cooperative and coordinated responses that can exist within social systems and integrate multiple responses. However, the dynamic interplay between co-existing systems and new ways of working makes implementation outcomes unpredictable.</p><p><br /><strong>Method: </strong>We interviewed eight programme leaders, three programme teams and two advisory groups to explore the capacity of one social system to implement and normalise a collaborative integrated place-based health promotion initiative in the Logan and Beaudesert area in South East Queensland, Australia. The construct of capacity as defined in the General Theory of Implementation was used to develop a coding framework. Data were then placed into conceptually coherent groupings according to this framework until all data could be accounted for.</p><p><br /><strong>Results: </strong>Four themes defined capacity for implementation of a collaborative and integrated response; namely, the ability to (1) traverse a nested and contradictory social landscape, (2) be a responsive and ‘good’ community partner, (3) establish the scaffolding required to work ‘in place’; and (4) build a shared meaning and engender trust. Overall, we found that the capacity of the system to embed a place-based health promotion initiative was severely limited by the absence of these features.</p><p><br /><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Conflict, disruption and constant change within the context into which the place-based collaborative partnership was being implemented meant that existing relationships were constantly undermined and the capacity of the partners to develop trust-based coherent partnerships was constantly diminished. To enhance the likelihood that collaborative and integrated place-based health promotion initiatives will become established ways of working, an agreed, meaningful and clearly articulated vision and identity are required; goals must be prioritised and negotiated; and sustainable resourcing must be assured.</p>http://www.ijic.org/index.php/ijic/article/view/2012place-based initiativespartnershipssocial systemshealth care systemsembedding interventionsintegrating care |
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Integrating collaborative place-based health promotion coalitions into existing health system structures: the experience from one Australian health coalition |
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Integrating collaborative place-based health promotion coalitions into existing health system structures: the experience from one Australian health coalition |
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Integrating collaborative place-based health promotion coalitions into existing health system structures: the experience from one Australian health coalition |
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Integrating collaborative place-based health promotion coalitions into existing health system structures: the experience from one Australian health coalition |
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Integrating collaborative place-based health promotion coalitions into existing health system structures: the experience from one Australian health coalition |
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integrating collaborative place-based health promotion coalitions into existing health system structures: the experience from one australian health coalition |
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Ubiquity Press |
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International Journal of Integrated Care |
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1568-4156 |
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2015-12-01 |
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<p><strong>Background: </strong>Increasingly, place-based collaborative partnerships are being implemented to develop the capacity of communities to build supportive environments and improve population health outcomes. These place-based initiatives require cooperative and coordinated responses that can exist within social systems and integrate multiple responses. However, the dynamic interplay between co-existing systems and new ways of working makes implementation outcomes unpredictable.</p><p><br /><strong>Method: </strong>We interviewed eight programme leaders, three programme teams and two advisory groups to explore the capacity of one social system to implement and normalise a collaborative integrated place-based health promotion initiative in the Logan and Beaudesert area in South East Queensland, Australia. The construct of capacity as defined in the General Theory of Implementation was used to develop a coding framework. Data were then placed into conceptually coherent groupings according to this framework until all data could be accounted for.</p><p><br /><strong>Results: </strong>Four themes defined capacity for implementation of a collaborative and integrated response; namely, the ability to (1) traverse a nested and contradictory social landscape, (2) be a responsive and ‘good’ community partner, (3) establish the scaffolding required to work ‘in place’; and (4) build a shared meaning and engender trust. Overall, we found that the capacity of the system to embed a place-based health promotion initiative was severely limited by the absence of these features.</p><p><br /><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Conflict, disruption and constant change within the context into which the place-based collaborative partnership was being implemented meant that existing relationships were constantly undermined and the capacity of the partners to develop trust-based coherent partnerships was constantly diminished. To enhance the likelihood that collaborative and integrated place-based health promotion initiatives will become established ways of working, an agreed, meaningful and clearly articulated vision and identity are required; goals must be prioritised and negotiated; and sustainable resourcing must be assured.</p> |
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place-based initiatives partnerships social systems health care systems embedding interventions integrating care |
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