Promoting implementation of “Good and Best Practices” through Health Promotion and Prevention Registries

Health promotion and disease prevention programme registries can play an important role in increasing transparency of “good/ best Practices” and promoting their implementation. In the EU, there are different approaches to how registries seek to support the implementation of practices. However, there is limited knowledge of the extent to which there are informative differences or overlaps in the mechanisms chosen for accreditation, capacity building and implementation. This presentation focuses on six national registries in the EU (Finland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia) and the European Public Health Best Practice Portal. Information was obtained through a working group on Good/ Best Practice Portals, established in 2019. Information on the process of adding good/best practices to the registry and on measures that promote implementation was gathered and evaluated through a descriptive case comparison. The comparison suggests that implementation can be promoted through different approaches for capacity building measures and incentives for implementation. The latter included funding resources, titling/awarding of practice and professional feedback in only a few registries. Registries may be useful not only for transparency of good and best Practices but also for implementation through capacity building and several incentives. The information provided in this presentation may be informative in guiding development of similar resources elsewhere and a starting point for discussion on how to support best the implementation of good/ best practices.

The way from stakeholders’ needs research to the public health policy and practice

The implementation of the project “ProfiBaza” was the unique opportunity to effectuate a data set with the possibility to showcase for the first time in Poland which public health (PH) interventions are taken and whether they cover population health needs. In order to be forethoughtful to this challenge, the needs of stakeholders within the health system were investigated. Particularly, considering the widely recognised knowledge-practice gap in the PH field. We would like to demonstrate the results of a needs analysis related to: the accessibility assessment of the information about PH interventions; the need of establishing a good practices database regarding health promotion and disease prevention; the possibility to use research findings in PH practice. All those would be presented from the perspective of researchers, politicians, decision makers and PH institutions. This research was conducted as a questionnaire-based survey and focus group interviews. Researchers were asked to assess the compatibility between the PH research and the population health needs. The group of health sector decision makers were questioned about the usage of the information available in the ProfiBaza for the process of evidence-based decision making; local government politicians - to assess their readiness to implement health programmes, use the good practices database and build partnerships for health while representatives of various sectors - to assess the need of initiating a knowledge translation platform via the launched ProfiBaza system. The results of the research demonstrate that there is a need for: solidified collaboration between different types of PH stakeholders, mobilization, coordination, sharing experiences, creating networks of cooperating institutions, which will enable the effective response to emerging challenges and opportunities and to counteract the phenomenon of dispersion of efforts in improving health and reducing social inequalities in health.