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Rethinking the Theory of Change for Health in All Policies: Comment on "Health Promotion at Local Level in Norway: The Use of Public Health Coordinators and Health Overviews to Promote Fair Distribution Among Social Groups"
This commentary discusses the interesting and surprising findings by Hagen and colleagues, focusing on the role of the public health coordinator as a Health in All Policies (HiAP) tool. The original article finds a negative association between the employment of public health coordinators in Norwegia...
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Kerman University of Medical Sciences
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6358656/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30709095 http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2018.96 |
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description | This commentary discusses the interesting and surprising findings by Hagen and colleagues, focusing on the role of the public health coordinator as a Health in All Policies (HiAP) tool. The original article finds a negative association between the employment of public health coordinators in Norwegian municipalities and consideration of a fair distribution of social and economic resources between social groups in local policymaking and planning. The commentary contemplates whether this surprising negative association should be interpreted as a failure of implementation, as suggested by the authors, or whether it might be the theory of change that has failed. On this basis, it is suggested that the very notion of HiAP could be flawed by the assumption that health should function as an overarching aim across government sectors. Potentially, the social determinants of health (SDH) might be more efficiently addressed by means of sectoral action by the corresponding sectors, emphasizing equity rather than health. |
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spelling | pubmed-63586562019-02-06 Rethinking the Theory of Change for Health in All Policies: Comment on "Health Promotion at Local Level in Norway: The Use of Public Health Coordinators and Health Overviews to Promote Fair Distribution Among Social Groups" Holt, Ditte Heering Int J Health Policy Manag Commentary This commentary discusses the interesting and surprising findings by Hagen and colleagues, focusing on the role of the public health coordinator as a Health in All Policies (HiAP) tool. The original article finds a negative association between the employment of public health coordinators in Norwegian municipalities and consideration of a fair distribution of social and economic resources between social groups in local policymaking and planning. The commentary contemplates whether this surprising negative association should be interpreted as a failure of implementation, as suggested by the authors, or whether it might be the theory of change that has failed. On this basis, it is suggested that the very notion of HiAP could be flawed by the assumption that health should function as an overarching aim across government sectors. Potentially, the social determinants of health (SDH) might be more efficiently addressed by means of sectoral action by the corresponding sectors, emphasizing equity rather than health. Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2018-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6358656/ /pubmed/30709095 http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2018.96 Text en © 2018 The Author(s); Published by Kerman University of Medical Sciences This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Holt, Ditte Heering Rethinking the Theory of Change for Health in All Policies: Comment on "Health Promotion at Local Level in Norway: The Use of Public Health Coordinators and Health Overviews to Promote Fair Distribution Among Social Groups" |
title | Rethinking the Theory of Change for Health in All Policies: Comment on "Health Promotion at Local Level in Norway: The Use of Public Health Coordinators and Health Overviews to Promote Fair Distribution Among Social Groups" |
title_full | Rethinking the Theory of Change for Health in All Policies: Comment on "Health Promotion at Local Level in Norway: The Use of Public Health Coordinators and Health Overviews to Promote Fair Distribution Among Social Groups" |
title_fullStr | Rethinking the Theory of Change for Health in All Policies: Comment on "Health Promotion at Local Level in Norway: The Use of Public Health Coordinators and Health Overviews to Promote Fair Distribution Among Social Groups" |
title_full_unstemmed | Rethinking the Theory of Change for Health in All Policies: Comment on "Health Promotion at Local Level in Norway: The Use of Public Health Coordinators and Health Overviews to Promote Fair Distribution Among Social Groups" |
title_short | Rethinking the Theory of Change for Health in All Policies: Comment on "Health Promotion at Local Level in Norway: The Use of Public Health Coordinators and Health Overviews to Promote Fair Distribution Among Social Groups" |
title_sort | rethinking the theory of change for health in all policies: comment on "health promotion at local level in norway: the use of public health coordinators and health overviews to promote fair distribution among social groups" |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6358656/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30709095 http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2018.96 |
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