Naslov
Impact of the twelve years of the Counties capacity building program “Health - Plan for it” in Croatia

Autori
Šogorić, Selma, Džakula, Aleksandar, Vuletić, Silvije

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Book of Abstracts, International Healthy Cities Conference, Athens, Greece, 2014 / Tsouros, A. - Atena : World health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, 2014

Skup
International Healthy Cities Conference

Mjesto i datum
Atena, Grčka, 22.10.2014. - 25.10.2014

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
counties public health capacity building; bottom-up planning

Sažetak
Healthy Counties Program started in spring 2002, with the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, the counties and the Andrija Štampar School of Public Health as partners. Its goal was to provide assistance to County governments in the process of decentralization of health and social welfare system. Since 2004, the project continued through program partnership, within the work of the Croatian Healthy Cities Network. During the process of education in the 1st faze of the programme (2002 to 2009) each County (twenty) and the City of Zagreb produced a health profile and health plan with prioritized health needs and identified actions to address them. But the pure existence of city or county health documents did not solve the problem of implementation so the second round of the Healthy Counties training modules (2008 to 2012) was design with the aim to improve counties and city of Zagreb implementation skills (leading process of change, networking, managing inter-organizational relations, communication and motivation, monitoring and evaluation of results). “Health - Plan for it” is a unique training program which strengthens the management and public health capacity of counties. It assists them to assess population health needs in a participative manner, to set priorities, to plan for health, and, ultimately, to ensure the provision of responsive, high quality services. Priorities selected and described in City or County Health Plans are the basis for resource allocation (80% of Healthy City or County health project funding has to be directed towards solving priority issues). In the past 12 years, this program has been supported by several ministries as well as by local county governments. “Health -Plan for it” is a model of good practice for cooperation between the academic community and local and national government. It relies on multidisciplinary and intersectoral approach, permanent consultation with the community and the use of qualitative analysis. The training program has received numerous program awards from the Centers for disease control (Atlanta, USA), including a distinction award on 16 January 2013. As a program “… that has improved management and leadership to strengthen country health capacity and improve health outcomes…’

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Javno zdravstvo i zdravstvena zaštita

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