scholarly journals School Health Research Network Wales: Development, implementation & contributing to public health policy

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
H Young
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
School Health ◽  
Strategic Partnership ◽  
Network Activity ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Health Improvement

Abstract The School Health Research Network (SHRN) was launched in Wales in 2013 as a strategic partnership between Cardiff University, Welsh Government, Public Health Wales (part of the National Health Service) and Cancer Research UK (a research-focused charity). SHRN is led by a multidisciplinary team in the Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer) at Cardiff University. SHRN aims to: 1) provide health and well-being data from a biennial survey for national, regional and local stakeholders, including schools; 2) co-produce school-based health improvement research for Wales; and 3) build capacity for evidence-informed public health policy and practice. Building on and integrating with HBSC infrastructure, a transdisciplinary complex adaptive systems (T-CAS) approach has been employed to develop SHRN, for a national culture of prevention for school health improvement. The T-CAS approach focuses on key stages and activities within a continuous network cycle to facilitate systems level change. The five key stages involve establishing transdisciplinary strategic partnerships, resource investment and linkage, network development, coproduction activities and reciprocal outputs. SHRN has successfully established new cross-sector stakeholder partnerships at multiple levels, and embedded network activity within national and local policy. It has established a programme of school engagement activities to secure membership of 212 (100%) secondary schools in Wales and building on HBSC systems and structures has developed a national data infrastructure with the biennial collection of student and school-level health and wellbeing data. SHRN has co-produced scientific evidence and established a new data-led planning system (e.g. 56 research studies co-produced). It has also secured sustainability funding from health and education, while developing research capacity to generate evidence and support professional practice.

scholarly journals A Transdisciplinary Complex Adaptive Systems (T-CAS) Approach to Developing a National School-Based Culture of Prevention for Health Improvement: the School Health Research Network (SHRN) in Wales

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Murphy ◽  
Hannah Littlecott ◽  
Gillian Hewitt ◽  
Sarah MacDonald ◽  
Joan Roberts ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
School Health ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Health Improvement ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Culture Of Prevention

AbstractThe paper reflects on a transdisciplinary complex adaptive systems (T-CAS) approach to the development of a school health research network (SHRN) in Wales for a national culture of prevention for health improvement in schools. A T-CAS approach focuses on key stages and activities within a continuous network cycle to facilitate systems level change. The theory highlights the importance of establishing transdisciplinary strategic partnerships to identify and develop opportunities for system reorientation. Investment in and the linking of resources develops the capacity for key social agents to take advantage of disruption points in the re-orientated system, and engagement activities develop the network to facilitate new social interactions and opportunities for transdisciplinary activities. A focus on transdisciplinary action research to co-produce interventions, generate research evidence and inform policy and practice is shown to play an important part in developing new normative processes that act to self-regulate the emerging system. Finally, the provision of reciprocal network benefits provides critical feedback loops that stabilise the emerging adaptive system and promote the network cycle. SHRN is shown to have embedded itself in the system by securing sustainability funding from health and education, a key role in national and regional planning and recruiting every eligible school to the network. It has begun to reorient the system to one of evidence generation (56 research studies co-produced) and opportunities for data-led practice at multiple levels. Further capacity development will be required to capitalise on these. The advantages of a complex systems approach to address barriers to change and the transferability of a T-CAS network approach across settings and cultures are highlighted.

scholarly journals Integrating Public Health Policy, Practice, Evaluation, Surveillance, and Research: The School Health Action Planning and Evaluation System

2007 ◽  
Vol 97 (4) ◽  
pp. 648-654 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Cameron ◽  
Stephen Manske ◽  
K. Stephen Brown ◽  
Mari Alice Jolin ◽  
Donna Murnaghan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
School Health ◽  
Action Planning ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Health Action

scholarly journals Strengthening public health research capacity to inform evidence-based policies in Tunisia / CONFIDE

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
M E Bozdog ◽  
M A Coman ◽  
O Oltean ◽  
R M Chereches
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Research Capacity ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Game

Abstract Introduction Over the past 15 years, Tunisia has experienced considerable development in the political and economic areas. In this context, important reforms in the field of public health have been made, with the Tunisian universities (University of Sfax, University of Tunis el Manar, University of Sousse) on their way to educate the public health professionals who can contribute to the modernization of the health system. Funded by the EC through Erasmus+ programme, the CONFIDE project (coordinated by Babes-Bolyai University, having European partners the Southern Denmark University and Trnava University) has 3 major objectives: develop Centres for Evidence into Health Policy (C4EHPs) designed to ease future collaborations; strengthen institutional capacity to deliver state-of-the-art research into policy training program; consolidate national and local partnerships between the public health academic and non-academic sector. The progress The partners have jointly contributed to the following activities: development of the Centre for Evidence into Public Health Policy, 3 train-the-trainer sessions, 9 train-the-trainees sessions, internships for trainees, one policy game. To this date, 18 trainers have been trained by European partner universities and they trained 29 Tunisian trainees in the field of public health research, health promotion and evidence-based public health policy. The trainees will participate in internships in local and regional health institutions, to practice what they have learned. A policy game will be organized, to simulate collaboration between researchers and policy makers, for public health policy elaboration. Conclusions The Research into Policy training program has been implemented in all 3 Tunisian partner universities. The expected long-term changes are: young workforce trained into public health and evidence-based policies fields; university curricula modifications by introducing public health courses and developing of Masters of Public Health.

scholarly journals Improving young people's health and well-being through a school health research network: Reflections on school–researcher engagement at the national level

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Hewitt ◽  
Joan S Roberts ◽  
Adam Fletcher ◽  
Graham Moore ◽  
Simon Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Health Research ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
School Health ◽  
National Level ◽  
Intervention Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Health Improvement ◽  
Health And Well Being

The School Health Research Network is a policy–practice–research partnership established in Wales in 2013. The network aims to: provide health and well-being data for national, regional and local stakeholders, including schools; co-produce school-based health improvement research for Wales; and build capacity for evidence-informed practice in the school health community. School-focused engagement activities include providing member schools with bespoke Student Health and Well-being Reports, hosting school health webinars, producing schoolfriendly research briefings and holding annual events for schools. The network's model for co-producing research with schools is described and its impacts on schools is explored. These include more efficient recruitment of schools to research projects, school involvement in intervention development, schools beginning to embed evidence-informed practice by using their Health and Well-being Reports and other network resources, and securing funding to evaluate innovative health and well-being practices identified by schools. Drawing on the transdisciplinary action research (TDAR) literature, the article reflects on how TDAR principles have underpinned the progress of the network. The concept of reciprocity in the co-production literature, and its relevance to engagement with schools, is also explored, along with the network's contribution to our understanding of how we can build sustainable co-production at large scale in order to generate nationallevel action and benefit.

Public Health: Policy and Politics

2001 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 507-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Baggott ◽  
David J Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Public Health Policy
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