Towards improved understanding of injury prevention program sustainability

Nilsen, Per; Timpka, Toomas; Nordenfelt, Lennart; Lindqvist, Kent

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2005.08.015

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“…2 Other identifi ed factors, however, address interaction between the programme and key stakeholders (eg, tailoring an intervention to an issue, the context, and the providers, showing achievement of goals), or planning for evolution of these interactions over time (eg, integrating a programme into established structures, strengthening institutions, and ensuring adaptability). These dynamic • Maintenance of health benefi ts [6][7][8] • Continuation of health programmes [9][10][11][12][13][14] • Institutionalisation of programmes within organisational systems 6,7,15 • Community capacity 6,9,13,16,17 • Multidimensional:…”

Section: Empirical Assessments Of Health-programme Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability science: an integrated approach for health-programme planning

Gruen

Elliott

Nolan³

et al. 2008

The Lancet

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Planning for programme sustainability is a key contributor to health and development, especially in low-income and middle-income countries. A consensus evidence-based operational framework would facilitate policy and research advances in understanding, measuring, and improving programme sustainability. We did a systematic review of both conceptual frameworks and empirical studies about health-programme sustainability. On the basis of the review, we propose that sustainable health programmes are regarded as complex systems that encompass programmes, health problems targeted by programmes, and programmes' drivers or key stakeholders, all of which interact dynamically within any given context. We show the usefulness of this approach with case studies drawn from the authors' experience.

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Section: Empirical Assessments Of Health-programme Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability science: an integrated approach for health-programme planning

Gruen

Elliott

Nolan³

et al. 2008

The Lancet

332

341

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“…It has, for instance, been difficult to produce convincing evidence that the projects have been successful (Nilsen, 2004;Nilsen et al, 2005;Nilsen et al, 2006). This is largely due to methodological problems in evaluating the projects.…”

Section: Community-based Promotion Of Safety At the Municipal Levelmentioning

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Discourses on municipal protection and safety work prior to the introduction of the ‘Civil Protection Act Against Accidents’ and five years later

Johansson-Hidén

2015

Safety Science

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“…A sustained reduction in injury of a target population has two complementary components: longterm outcomes attributable to the injury control programme itself, and the maintenance of the social process required to implement and sustain this programme (Nilsen, Timpka, Nordenfelt, & Lindqvist, 2005). Given that nearly half of all community initiatives do not survive beyond the initial development phase (Rissel, Finnegan, & Bracht, 1995;World Bank, 1990;Yates, 1973), the maintenance of an injury control and safety promotion programme for sufficient time to achieve its objectives is an important determinant of its success (O'Loughlin, Renaud, Richard, Gomez, & Paradis, 1998).…”

Section: Sustainable Injury Control and Safety Promotionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring the sustainability of a community safety promotion network: working from the inside out

Hanson

McFarlane

Vardon

et al. 2012

International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion

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Mackay Whitsunday Safe Communities (MWSC) was developed using a capacity building model that consciously attempted to design sustainability into the network. Our aim was to quantify the flow of resources used by MWSC to implement and sustain its injury control activities. Resource exchange among network members was quantified and analysed using social network analysis. In 2004, MWSC accessed an estimated 6.5 full-time staff equivalents and $0.9 million. However, these resources were largely accessed externally. The linking relationships that connected MWSC to its external support network, more than half of which were maintained by six broker network facilitators, were the critical social asset used to access resources and sustain network productivity. The sustainability of this network and arguably similar safety promotion networks is vulnerable to the changing priorities of external sponsoring agents and highly dependent on its leaders who facilitated access to the resources it required to remain productive.

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Towards improved understanding of injury prevention program sustainability

Cited by 32 publications

References 35 publications

Sustainability science: an integrated approach for health-programme planning

Sustainability science: an integrated approach for health-programme planning

Discourses on municipal protection and safety work prior to the introduction of the ‘Civil Protection Act Against Accidents’ and five years later

Measuring the sustainability of a community safety promotion network: working from the inside out

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