Pre-conference: Establishing the effectiveness of complex health promotion interventions: shining light on alternatives
Tuesday 12 November, 9:00 – 17:00 Lisbon time (including network lunch)
Organised by
EUPHA Health promotion section, UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education
Background
A large share of the programmes and policies developed by field workers to cater to the specific needs of local populations are not amenable to the evaluation methods and designs which are typically ranked at the top of the evidence pyramid and usually seek to study only one factor at a time, all other things being equal. This is a major impediment to the development and improvement of local programmes that are accounting for the specific resources and barriers found locally and that adopt a participatory strategy. In this pre-conference, we will reflect on the challenges facing health promotion practitioners and researchers in establishing the effectiveness of their programmes and policies and will explore alternatives to the traditional epistemological and methodological perspectives. Through presentations on the epistemological and methodological perspectives driving new evaluative approaches, discussions on real-life experiences, and small-group activities, this interactive preconference will offer a wealth of ideas and knowledge to public health professionals, researchers and policy makers and provide them with opportunities to build collaborations and expand their networks. Materials presented during this pre-conference and the consensus built among the participants will feed into the writing of a statement to be disseminated through the channels and networks of the organisers. This event is building on the Global Handbook of Health Promotion Research initiated by the UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education.
Download the programme here.
Objectives
At the end of the day, participants will be able to:
- Identify the main epistemological requirements to establishing the effectiveness of a health promotion programme
- Appraise the quality of a research design in establishing the proof of effectiveness
- Define criteria that a programme can achieve to be considered promising
- Develop a multi-layered body of evidence on the effectiveness of a programme.
- Argue against views putting RCTs as the only means to make a programme an evidence-based one.
- Identify and mobilise colleagues from the pre-conference able to support them in their evaluation work
- Make their voice count in contributing to a statement.
Presenters/moderators
- Michelle Baybutt, School of Health, Social Work and Sport, United Kingdom
- Eric Breton, President of the HP Section, EHESP School of Public Health, France
- Goof Buijs, manager UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education, The Netherlands
- Silvia de Ruiter, UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education, The Netherlands
- Nicola Gray, UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education, UK
- Didier Jourdan, Chair Holder of the UNESCO chair “Global Health and Education”, Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for “Research in Education and Health”, France
- Karina Leksy, Institute of Pedagogy, University of Silesia, Poland
- Elisabeth Nöhammer, UMIT – Private University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Austria
Programme
The full programme is available here.
Registration
The registration fee is EUR 150. Networking lunch and refreshments are included. Number of registrations is limited to 40 persons.