Health Promotion Effectiveness in the Western Pacific Region
Researchers: Professor
Vivian Lin and colleagues
Research partner: WHO
Interest in health promotion effectiveness recognises a need to
improve health and decrease health differentials between and within
countries, and to find the best approaches to achieve these objectives.
In the Western Pacific Region, despite various country and regional
training activities in planning, implementation and evaluation,
practices in the field do not yet uniformly demonstrate high quality
and systematic approaches to use of evidence and to evaluation.
This results in inadequate documentation and publication of findings,
which limits the potential for countries to share experiences, to
scale up successes, and to build an evidence base for health promotion.
Professor
Vivian Lin, Sally Fawkes and colleagues have provided
a framework for supporting the achievement of health promotion effectiveness
in the Western Pacific Region.
Status of project: Completed
Research Outputs:
Effectiveness
of Health Promotion in Changing Environment and Lifestyles in Developing
Countries of the Western Pacific Region: A Review and a Proposed
Framework
Health Promotion Strategy for
ASEAN Health
Researchers: Professor
Vivian Lin and colleagues
Research partner: WHO
Interest in health promotion effectiveness recognises
that there is a need to improve health and decrease health differentials
between and within countries and that it is necessary to find the
best approaches to achieve the objectives. In the Western Pacific
Region, despite various country and regional training activities
in planning, implementation and evaluation, practices in teh field
do not yet uniformly demonstrate high quality and systematic approaches
to use of evidence and to evaluation. This results in inadequate
documentation and publication of findings, which limits the potential
for countires to share experiences, to scale up successes, and to
build an evidence base for health promotion. At the same time, the
achievement and assessment of effectiveness in health promotion
are not simply techincal tasks.
Research by Professor
Vivian Lin and Sally Fawkes provided a framework for supporting
the achievement of health promotion effectiveness in the Western
Pacific Region.
Status of project: Completed
Research Outputs:
Health Promotion Strategy for ASEAN Health
Review of HIV Lending and Sector Work in East
Asia and Pacific for the World Bank
Researchers: Professor
Vivian Lin and colleagues
Research partner: World Bank
The World Bank has formulated its strategic thinking on HIV/AIDS
at the global level, but there is a need to develop a more customised
position in relation to East Asia and Pacific countries. Some of
the most significant impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemics that the world
may face may occur in the populous nations in the EAP Region - China
and Indonesia - if effective preventive action is not taken. Given
the huge population in many EAP countries, even a small increase
in HIV/AIDS prevalence will translate into millions of infections.
Status of project: Completed
Research Outputs:
Review
of HIV Lending and Sector Work in East Asia and Pacific
Mapping National Health Promotion Capacity Profile
Researchers: Professor
Vivian Lin and colleagues
Research partner: WHO (WPRO)
Professor Vivian
Lin, Sally Fawkes and colleagues at WHO (WPRO) have been involved
in mapping health promotion capacity at the national level. One
of the complexities of health promotion is that interventions need
to be honed specifically to individual issues, contexts and available
resources. At a national level, this involves health promotion infrastructure
(policies, surveillance systems, a skilled workforce and an ability
to research, evaluate and deliver programs). WHO (WPRO) initiated
this exercise to map national health promotion infrastructure capacity
through its network of Regional Health Promotion Advisers (via questionnaires
and data collection), the aim being to generate a set of broad domains
that are not health-issue dependent, that can be used to track national
capacity in health promotion.
Status of project: Completed
Research Outputs:
Final
Report on National Health Promotion Capacity Mapping in the Western
Pacific Region
Public Health, Health Promotion and Leadership
Researchers: Professor
Vivian Lin and colleagues
Research partner: WHO (WPRO)
There are challenges for public health and health promotion in
the context of leadership. Professor
Vivian Lin, Sally Fawkes and colleagues have developed
a program model for health promotion leadership development for
WHO (WPRO).
Status of project:
Stages 1 and 2 are completed; Stage 3 is ongoing. Further information
about the PROLEAD project.
Research Outputs:
Health Promotion Leadership Development: Program Model for Western
Pacific Region
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Public Health Practice - Research
Staff profile:
Professor Vivian Lin
