Applying quality improvement strategies within Canadian population health promotion

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 422-431
Author(s):  
Candace D Bloomquist ◽  
Julie Kryzanowski ◽  
Tanya Dunn-Pierce
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Community Partnerships ◽  
Intersectoral Collaboration ◽  
Improve Population Health ◽  
Canadian Population ◽  
Care Systems

Abstract This article describes how quality improvement (QI) methodology was applied to partnership work in a population health promotion unit within a health care system. Using Kolb’s experiential model of learning, we describe and reflect on our experience as a population health promotion unit working on a QI initiative focused on community partnerships for intersectoral collaboration. We identify contextual factors that can guide QI for population health promotion work. The three main lessons we identified were to (i) frame the need for improvement effectively, (ii) start by setting the conditions for others to lead and (iii) be people-focused as well as process-focused. Health care systems can apply QI methods to improve and strengthen their role in working with partners to improve population health. By sharing our experience with other practitioners, we hope to find support and allies as we learn together to improve quality in population health promotion settings.

scholarly journals Future Perspectives of Health Care: Closing Remarks

2021 ◽  
pp. 375-380
Author(s):  
Gørill Haugan ◽  
Monica Eriksson
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Professional Leadership ◽  
Salutogenic Model

AbstractThe Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated the vulnerability of our health care systems as well as our societies. During the year of 2020, we have witnessed how whole societies globally have been in a turbulent state of transformation finding strategies to manage the difficulties caused by the pandemic. At first glance, the health promotion perspective might seem far away from handling the serious impacts caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. However, as health promotion is about enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, paradoxically health promotion seems to be ever more important in times of crisis and pandemics. Probably, in the future, pandemics will be a part of the global picture along with the non-communicable diseases. These facts strongly demand the health care services to reorient in a health promoting direction.The IUHPE Global Working Group on Salutogenesis suggests that health promotion competencies along with a reorientation of professional leadership towards salutogenesis, empowerment and participation are required. More specifically, the IUHPE Group recommends that the overall salutogenic model of health and the concept of SOC should be further advanced and applied beyond the health sector, followed by the design of salutogenic interventions and change processes in complex systems.

scholarly journals Discussion of “Representation of People’s Decisions in Health Information Systems: A Complementary Approach for Understanding Health Care Systems and Population Health”

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 (S 01) ◽  
pp. e20-e29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Najeeb Al-Shorbaji ◽  
Elizabeth Borycki ◽  
Michio Kimura ◽  
Christoph Lehmann ◽  
Nancy Lorenzi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
Letters To The Editor ◽  
Discussion Section ◽  
Complementary Approach ◽  
Care Systems

SummaryThis article is part of a For-Discussion-Section of Methods of Information in Medicine about the paper “Representation of People’s Decisions in Health Information Systems: A Complementary Approach for Understanding Health Care Systems and Population Health” written by Fernan Gonzalez Bernaldo de Qui-ros, Adriana Ruth Dawidowski, and Silvana Figar. It is introduced by an editorial. This article contains the combined commentaries invited to independently comment on the paper of de Quiros, Dawidowski, and Figar. In subsequent issues the discussion can continue through letters to the editor.

scholarly journals Can innovative digital collaborations help overcome barriers to intersectoral collaboration?

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
C Nordström ◽  
B Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Local Level ◽  
National Level ◽  
Migrant Health ◽  
Intersectoral Collaboration ◽  
Professional Networks ◽  
Care Systems

Abstract Issue Health in all policies is desirable, but moving from the silos approach is a challenge for health care systems. New health policies require more cooperation and broader collaboration between governmental, private and volunteer sector, as well as across professions. Though it is key to implementation of national policies and long-term public health work at the local level, intersectoral collaboration remains elusive. Professionals working with public health and migrant health across Norway often work independently of each other and other sectors. Description of the Problem Evaluation of the Norwegian network for migrant friendly hospitals showed that with the opportunity to meet and share experiences, participants used the new knowledge and network in developing their practice and organisation of services. They experienced greater support to challenge status quo in their institutions. However, fear of making the network “too big to handle” is a barrier to creating intersectoral network. In a recent survey (2017), health personnel ask for digital solutions for finding resources and support in their practice to give better health care to immigrant patients. Results The newly (2020) knowledge HUB part of JAHEE actions brings stakeholders together at the local, regional and national level, ensuring access to the same knowledge, increase evidence based decisions among stakeholders when choosing interventions on the local, regional and national level, including sharing of good practices and promising initiatives at a national level so that they can be replicated. Lessons Professional networks that are coordinated and collaborative are important for development of services and implementation of measures for migrant health. However, expanding them across sectors and fields may create challenges. Combining sectoral networks with a common digital platform may overcome some of these challenges. Key messages Exploiting the potential of collaborative digital solutions may help overcome some barriers to intersectoral approach to migrant health. Coordinated collaborative professional networks can support the participants in developing their practice and organisation of services for migrants.

Incorporating Discrete Event Simulation Into Quality Improvement Efforts in Health Care Systems

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Harris Rutberg ◽  
Sharon Wenczel ◽  
John Devaney ◽  
Eric Jonathan Goldlust ◽  
Theodore Eugene Day
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Discrete Event Simulation ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Discrete Event ◽  
Event Simulation ◽  
Care Systems
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