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Promoting Students' Health at University: Key Stakeholders, Cooperation, and Network Development
Background: Cooperation among university units is considered a cornerstone for the promotion of students' health. The underlying mechanisms of health-promoting networks at universities have rarely been examined so far. Shedding light on partnerships is generally limited to the naming of allied...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8277920/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34277547 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.680714 |
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author | Bachert, Philip Wäsche, Hagen Albrecht, Felix Hildebrand, Claudia Kunz, Alexa Maria Woll, Alexander |
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description | Background: Cooperation among university units is considered a cornerstone for the promotion of students' health. The underlying mechanisms of health-promoting networks at universities have rarely been examined so far. Shedding light on partnerships is generally limited to the naming of allied actors in a network. Objectives and Methods: In this study, we used network analysis intending to visualize and describe the positions and characteristics of the network actors, and examine organizational relationships to determine the characteristics of the complete network. Results: The network analysis at hand provides in-depth insights into university structures promoting students' health comprising 33 organizational units and hundreds of ties. Both cooperation and communication network show a flat, non-hierarchical structure, which is reflected by its low centralization indices (39–43%) and short average distances (1.43–1.47) with low standard deviations (0.499–0.507), small diameter (3), and the non-existence of subgroups. Density lies between 0.53 and 0.57. According to the respondents, the University Sports Center is considered the most important actor in the context of students' health. Presidium and Institute of Sport and Sports Science play an integral role in terms of network functionality. Conclusion: In the health-promoting network, numerous opportunities for further integration and interaction of actors exist. Indications for transferring results to other universities are discussed. Network analysis enables universities to profoundly analyze their health-promoting structures, which is the basis for sustained network governance and development. |
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spelling | pubmed-82779202021-07-15 Promoting Students' Health at University: Key Stakeholders, Cooperation, and Network Development Bachert, Philip Wäsche, Hagen Albrecht, Felix Hildebrand, Claudia Kunz, Alexa Maria Woll, Alexander Front Public Health Public Health Background: Cooperation among university units is considered a cornerstone for the promotion of students' health. The underlying mechanisms of health-promoting networks at universities have rarely been examined so far. Shedding light on partnerships is generally limited to the naming of allied actors in a network. Objectives and Methods: In this study, we used network analysis intending to visualize and describe the positions and characteristics of the network actors, and examine organizational relationships to determine the characteristics of the complete network. Results: The network analysis at hand provides in-depth insights into university structures promoting students' health comprising 33 organizational units and hundreds of ties. Both cooperation and communication network show a flat, non-hierarchical structure, which is reflected by its low centralization indices (39–43%) and short average distances (1.43–1.47) with low standard deviations (0.499–0.507), small diameter (3), and the non-existence of subgroups. Density lies between 0.53 and 0.57. According to the respondents, the University Sports Center is considered the most important actor in the context of students' health. Presidium and Institute of Sport and Sports Science play an integral role in terms of network functionality. Conclusion: In the health-promoting network, numerous opportunities for further integration and interaction of actors exist. Indications for transferring results to other universities are discussed. Network analysis enables universities to profoundly analyze their health-promoting structures, which is the basis for sustained network governance and development. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8277920/ /pubmed/34277547 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.680714 Text en Copyright © 2021 Bachert, Wäsche, Albrecht, Hildebrand, Kunz and Woll. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Bachert, Philip Wäsche, Hagen Albrecht, Felix Hildebrand, Claudia Kunz, Alexa Maria Woll, Alexander Promoting Students' Health at University: Key Stakeholders, Cooperation, and Network Development |
title | Promoting Students' Health at University: Key Stakeholders, Cooperation, and Network Development |
title_full | Promoting Students' Health at University: Key Stakeholders, Cooperation, and Network Development |
title_fullStr | Promoting Students' Health at University: Key Stakeholders, Cooperation, and Network Development |
title_full_unstemmed | Promoting Students' Health at University: Key Stakeholders, Cooperation, and Network Development |
title_short | Promoting Students' Health at University: Key Stakeholders, Cooperation, and Network Development |
title_sort | promoting students' health at university: key stakeholders, cooperation, and network development |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8277920/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34277547 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.680714 |
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