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Assessing communities of practice in health policy: a conceptual framework as a first step towards empirical research
Communities of Practice (CoPs) are groups of people that interact regularly to deepen their knowledge on a specific topic. Thanks to information and communication technologies, CoPs can involve experts distributed across countries and adopt a ‘transnational’ membership. This has allowed the strategy...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3819672/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24139662 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-4505-11-39 |
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author | Bertone, Maria Paola Meessen, Bruno Clarysse, Guy Hercot, David Kelley, Allison Kafando, Yamba Lange, Isabelle Pfaffmann, Jérôme Ridde, Valéry Sieleunou, Isidore Witter, Sophie |
author_facet | Bertone, Maria Paola Meessen, Bruno Clarysse, Guy Hercot, David Kelley, Allison Kafando, Yamba Lange, Isabelle Pfaffmann, Jérôme Ridde, Valéry Sieleunou, Isidore Witter, Sophie |
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description | Communities of Practice (CoPs) are groups of people that interact regularly to deepen their knowledge on a specific topic. Thanks to information and communication technologies, CoPs can involve experts distributed across countries and adopt a ‘transnational’ membership. This has allowed the strategy to be applied to domains of knowledge such as health policy with a global perspective. CoPs represent a potentially valuable tool for producing and sharing explicit knowledge, as well as tacit knowledge and implementation practices. They may also be effective in creating links among the different ‘knowledge holders’ contributing to health policy (e.g., researchers, policymakers, technical assistants, practitioners, etc.). CoPs in global health are growing in number and activities. As a result, there is an increasing need to document their progress and evaluate their effectiveness. This paper represents a first step towards such empirical research as it aims to provide a conceptual framework for the analysis and assessment of transnational CoPs in health policy. The framework is developed based on the findings of a literature review as well as on our experience, and reflects the specific features and challenges of transnational CoPs in health policy. It organizes the key elements of CoPs into a logical flow that links available resources and the capacity to mobilize them, with knowledge management activities and the expansion of knowledge, with changes in policy and practice and, ultimately, with an improvement in health outcomes. Additionally, the paper addresses the challenges in the operationalization and empirical application of the framework. |
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spelling | pubmed-38196722013-11-08 Assessing communities of practice in health policy: a conceptual framework as a first step towards empirical research Bertone, Maria Paola Meessen, Bruno Clarysse, Guy Hercot, David Kelley, Allison Kafando, Yamba Lange, Isabelle Pfaffmann, Jérôme Ridde, Valéry Sieleunou, Isidore Witter, Sophie Health Res Policy Syst Research Communities of Practice (CoPs) are groups of people that interact regularly to deepen their knowledge on a specific topic. Thanks to information and communication technologies, CoPs can involve experts distributed across countries and adopt a ‘transnational’ membership. This has allowed the strategy to be applied to domains of knowledge such as health policy with a global perspective. CoPs represent a potentially valuable tool for producing and sharing explicit knowledge, as well as tacit knowledge and implementation practices. They may also be effective in creating links among the different ‘knowledge holders’ contributing to health policy (e.g., researchers, policymakers, technical assistants, practitioners, etc.). CoPs in global health are growing in number and activities. As a result, there is an increasing need to document their progress and evaluate their effectiveness. This paper represents a first step towards such empirical research as it aims to provide a conceptual framework for the analysis and assessment of transnational CoPs in health policy. The framework is developed based on the findings of a literature review as well as on our experience, and reflects the specific features and challenges of transnational CoPs in health policy. It organizes the key elements of CoPs into a logical flow that links available resources and the capacity to mobilize them, with knowledge management activities and the expansion of knowledge, with changes in policy and practice and, ultimately, with an improvement in health outcomes. Additionally, the paper addresses the challenges in the operationalization and empirical application of the framework. BioMed Central 2013-10-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3819672/ /pubmed/24139662 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-4505-11-39 Text en Copyright © 2013 Bertone et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Bertone, Maria Paola Meessen, Bruno Clarysse, Guy Hercot, David Kelley, Allison Kafando, Yamba Lange, Isabelle Pfaffmann, Jérôme Ridde, Valéry Sieleunou, Isidore Witter, Sophie Assessing communities of practice in health policy: a conceptual framework as a first step towards empirical research |
title | Assessing communities of practice in health policy: a conceptual framework as a first step towards empirical research |
title_full | Assessing communities of practice in health policy: a conceptual framework as a first step towards empirical research |
title_fullStr | Assessing communities of practice in health policy: a conceptual framework as a first step towards empirical research |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessing communities of practice in health policy: a conceptual framework as a first step towards empirical research |
title_short | Assessing communities of practice in health policy: a conceptual framework as a first step towards empirical research |
title_sort | assessing communities of practice in health policy: a conceptual framework as a first step towards empirical research |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3819672/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24139662 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-4505-11-39 |
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