Organizational capacities for health promotion implementation

Results from an international hospital study

Dados Bibliográficos

ID22945361
AutoresFlorian Röthlin (Ludwig Boltzmann Institut Health Promotion Research, autor correspondente), Hermann Schmied (Ludwig Boltzmann Institut Health Promotion Research), Christina Dietscher (Ludwig Boltzmann Institut Health Promotion Research)
Ano2015
Volume30
Fascículo2
Páginas369-379
Data de publicação2015-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHealth Promotion International (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0957-4824 • E-ISSN: 1460-2245
EditoraOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/heapro/dat048
PMID23872386
OpenAlexW2141102673
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas17

In this article, organizational structures in hospitals are discussed as possible capacities for hospital health promotion (HP) implementation, based on data from the PRICES-HPH study. PRICES-HPH is a cross-sectional evaluation study of the International Network of Health Promoting Hospitals & Health Services (HPH-Network) and was conducted in 2008-2012. Data from 159 acute care hospitals were used in the analysis. Twelve organizational structures, which were denoted as possible organizational health promotion capacities in previous literature, were tested for their association with certain strategic HP implementation approaches. Four organizational structures were significantly (p = 0.05) associated with one or more elaborate and comprehensive strategic HP implementation approaches: (1) a health promotion specific quality assessment routine; (2) an official hospital health promotion team; (3) a fulltime hospital health promotion coordinator; and (4) officially documented health promotion policies, strategies or standards. The results add further evidence to the importance of organizational capacity structures for hospital health promotion and identify four tangible structures as likely candidates for organizational HP capacities in hospitals.

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