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Developing a policy game intervention to enhance collaboration in public health policymaking in three European countries

BACKGROUND: One of the key elements to enhance the uptake of evidence in public health policies is stimulating cross-sector collaboration. An intervention stimulating collaboration is a policy game. The aim of this study was to describe the design and methods of the development process of the policy...

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Autores principales: Spitters, H. P. E. M., van Oers, J. A. M., Sandu, P., Lau, C. J, Quanjel, M., Dulf, D., Chereches, R., van de Goor, L. A. M.
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5735538/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29258483
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4963-7
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author Spitters, H. P. E. M.
van Oers, J. A. M.
Sandu, P.
Lau, C. J
Quanjel, M.
Dulf, D.
Chereches, R.
van de Goor, L. A. M.
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van Oers, J. A. M.
Sandu, P.
Lau, C. J
Quanjel, M.
Dulf, D.
Chereches, R.
van de Goor, L. A. M.
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description BACKGROUND: One of the key elements to enhance the uptake of evidence in public health policies is stimulating cross-sector collaboration. An intervention stimulating collaboration is a policy game. The aim of this study was to describe the design and methods of the development process of the policy game ‘In2Action’ within a real-life setting of public health policymaking networks in the Netherlands, Denmark and Romania. METHODS: The development of the policy game intervention consisted of three phases, pre intervention, designing the game intervention and tailoring the intervention. RESULTS: In2Action was developed as a role-play game of one day, with main focus to develop in collaboration a cross-sector implementation plan based on the approved strategic local public health policy. CONCLUSIONS: This study introduced an innovative intervention for public health policymaking. It described the design and development of the generic frame of the In2Action game focusing on enhancing collaboration in local public health policymaking networks. By keeping the game generic, it became suitable for each of the three country cases with only minor changes. The generic frame of the game is expected to be generalizable for other European countries to stimulate interaction and collaboration in the policy process.
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spelling pubmed-57355382017-12-21 Developing a policy game intervention to enhance collaboration in public health policymaking in three European countries Spitters, H. P. E. M. van Oers, J. A. M. Sandu, P. Lau, C. J Quanjel, M. Dulf, D. Chereches, R. van de Goor, L. A. M. BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: One of the key elements to enhance the uptake of evidence in public health policies is stimulating cross-sector collaboration. An intervention stimulating collaboration is a policy game. The aim of this study was to describe the design and methods of the development process of the policy game ‘In2Action’ within a real-life setting of public health policymaking networks in the Netherlands, Denmark and Romania. METHODS: The development of the policy game intervention consisted of three phases, pre intervention, designing the game intervention and tailoring the intervention. RESULTS: In2Action was developed as a role-play game of one day, with main focus to develop in collaboration a cross-sector implementation plan based on the approved strategic local public health policy. CONCLUSIONS: This study introduced an innovative intervention for public health policymaking. It described the design and development of the generic frame of the In2Action game focusing on enhancing collaboration in local public health policymaking networks. By keeping the game generic, it became suitable for each of the three country cases with only minor changes. The generic frame of the game is expected to be generalizable for other European countries to stimulate interaction and collaboration in the policy process. BioMed Central 2017-12-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5735538/ /pubmed/29258483 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4963-7 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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van Oers, J. A. M.
Sandu, P.
Lau, C. J
Quanjel, M.
Dulf, D.
Chereches, R.
van de Goor, L. A. M.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5735538/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29258483
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4963-7
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