Practitioner consensus on the determinants of capacity building practice in high-income countries

Swanepoel, Libby; Fox, Ann; Hughes, Roger

doi:10.1017/s136898001400216x

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“…Across diverse disciplines, capacity building involves intentional, coordinated and mission-driven efforts aimed at strengthening the activities, management and governance of agencies to improve their performance and impact (43, 74). In public health, capacity building can be broad, crossing programmatic (or organizational) silos, or can be specific to a particular topic area such as cancer prevention (137), nutrition (171), maternal and child health (46), HIV prevention (48), or to the professional specializations in performing their tasks identified by certification or licensing requirements (149). …”

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Building Capacity for Evidence-Based Public Health: Reconciling the Pulls of Practice and the Push of Research

Brownson

Fielding

Green

2024

Annual Review of Public Health

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Timely implementation of principles of evidence-based public health (EBPH) is critical for bridging the gap between discovery of new knowledge and application. Public health organizations need sufficient capacity (the availability of resources, structures, and workforce to plan deliver and evaluate the “preventive dose” of an evidence-based intervention) to move science to practice. We review principles of EBPH, the importance of capacity building to advance evidence-based approaches, promising approaches for capacity building, and future areas for research and practice. While there is general agreement on the importance of EBPH, there is less clarity on the definition of evidence, how to find it, and how, when and where to use it. Capacity for EBPH is needed among both individuals and organizations. Capacity can be strengthened via training, use of tools, technical assistance, assessment and feedback, peer networking, and incentives. Modest investments in EBPH capacity-building will foster more effective public health practice.

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Section: Why Capacity Building Mattersmentioning

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Building Capacity for Evidence-Based Public Health: Reconciling the Pulls of Practice and the Push of Research

Brownson

Fielding

Green

2024

Annual Review of Public Health

251

281

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“…It is necessary to support effective health promotion practice by the advancement of knowledge and skills among practitioners, the expansion of support and infrastructure for health promotion in organizations, and the development of cohesiveness and partnerships for health in the community (19). Capacity Building approaches have been successfully applied in various fields of health promotion (20)(21)(22)(23). In community settings, the concept is also known as "community capacity" (11,24).…”

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ACTION for Men: Study Protocol of a Community Capacity Building Intervention to Develop and Implement Gender-Sensitive Physical Activity Programs for Men 50 Plus

Strobl

Brew‐Sam

Curbach

et al. 2020

Front. Public Health

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Introduction: Capacity building for health promotion is a relevant precondition for sustainable, health-related changes in community settings. So far, there are few evidence-based recommendations about how to implement and evaluate community capacity building approaches. ACTION for men (A4M) is a project designed to build and evaluate capacities for health promotion in three rural communities in Bavaria, Germany, via a participatory approach including multiple community stakeholders. The project specifically aims at improving physical activity (PA) in men over 50 years of age (50 plus). Methods and Analysis: As a strategy to build the communities' capacities, we set up stakeholder groups in so far two communities. Those stakeholder groups will be facilitated over a period of 1-3 years. In regular meetings, the group members will be motivated to actively participate in planning and implementing PA programs for men 50 plus. The facilitation will systematically address key domains of community capacity (e.g., critical awareness, problem assessment, resource mobilization). The evaluation of the capacity building processes will be carried out using a mixed-methods design. Evaluation instruments consist of structured documentations and face-to-face interviews with stakeholder group participants (and drop-outs) as well as a pre-post-test using a standardized questionnaire in order to detect activity-related changes in men 50 plus from the involved communities. In community three, we will conduct the same procedure with a delay of 6 months. Discussion: Building community capacity for health promotion programs is the primary aim in A4M, and thus differs from previous research in which capacity is mostly a means to an end or an "incidental" result of a health promotion program. Therefore, A4M is expected to deliver important findings about how to implement and evaluate capacity building processes for health promotion, as well as how to address physical activity in community settings.

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“…Research around the world has focused on strategies to strengthen public health nutrition workforces (18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23) . Capacity building has been recognised as a cost-effective strategy to improve public health nutrition practice (18) and can help improve implementation of evidence-based interventions, enhance public health leadership and align public health activities within and between organisations (24,25) .…”

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Strengthening public health nutrition: findings from a situational assessment to inform system-wide capacity building in Ontario, Canada

Prowse

Richmond

Carsley

et al. 2020

Public Health Nutr.

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Abstract Objective: To assess public health nutrition practice within the public health system in Ontario, Canada to identify provincial-wide needs for scientific and technical support. Design: A qualitative descriptive study was conducted to identify activities, strengths, challenges and opportunities in public health nutrition practice using semi-structured key informant interviews (n 21) and focus groups (n 10). Recorded notes were analysed concurrently with data generation using content analysis. System needs were prioritised through a survey. Setting: Public health units. Participants: Eighty-nine practitioners, managers, directors, medical officers of health, researchers and other stakeholders were purposively recruited through snowball and extreme case sampling. Results: Five themes were generated: (i) current public health nutrition practice was broad, complex, in transition and collaborative; (ii) data/evidence/research relevant to public health needs were insufficiently available and accessible; (iii) the amount and specificity of guidance/leadership was perceived to be mismatched with strong evidence that diet is a risk factor for poor health; (iv) resources/capacity were varied but insufficient and (v) understanding of nutrition expertise in public health among colleagues, leadership and other organisations can be improved. Top ranked needs were increased understanding, visibility and prioritisation of healthy eating and food environments; improved access to data and evidence; improved collaboration and coordination; and increased alignment of activities and goals. Conclusions: Collective capacity in the public health nutrition can be improved through strategic system-wide capacity-building interventions. Research is needed to explore how improvements in data, evidence and local contexts can bridge research and practice to effectively and efficiently improve population diets and health.

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Practitioner consensus on the determinants of capacity building practice in high-income countries

Cited by 6 publications

References 30 publications

Building Capacity for Evidence-Based Public Health: Reconciling the Pulls of Practice and the Push of Research

Building Capacity for Evidence-Based Public Health: Reconciling the Pulls of Practice and the Push of Research

ACTION for Men: Study Protocol of a Community Capacity Building Intervention to Develop and Implement Gender-Sensitive Physical Activity Programs for Men 50 Plus

Strengthening public health nutrition: findings from a situational assessment to inform system-wide capacity building in Ontario, Canada

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