IPCHS

Contents tagged: practice change

July 31, 2017 Global Publication

Engaging and empowering people and communities, Strengthening governance and accountability, Creating an enabling environment

A qualitative study of clinic and community member perspectives on intervention toolkits: “Unless the toolkit is used it won’t help solve the problem”

Intervention toolkits are common products of grant-funded research in public health and primary care settings. Toolkits are designed to address the knowledge translation gap by speeding implementation and dissemination of research into practice. However, few studies describe characteristics of effective intervention toolkits and their implementation. Therefore, the aim of this study is to explore what clinic and community-based users want in intervention toolkits and to identify the factors that supports application in practice.

community-based research, implementation research, knowledge translation, practice change, practice facilitation, primary care, qualitative methods, toolkits

March 4, 2019 Europe Publication

Coordinating services within and across sectors, Creating an enabling environment

Health literacy as a social practice: Social and empirical dimensions of knowledge on health and healthcare

Health literacy has become a hot topic in health research and public health promotion. Most definitions specify health literacy as an individual cognitive skill, and surveys such as the EU-HLS which ask people to self-rate their decision-making capacity in the health system, grade a majority of the population as having an inadequate health literacy. Inspired by a praxeological understanding of knowledge and based on an empirical study on welfare bricolage in superdiverse urban neighborhoods, this paper explores health literacy ethnographically and highlights people's knowledge, creative practices and experiences concerning health and healthcare.

health literacy, health promotion, knowledge sharing, practice change, public health, social practice