A composite index of integrated programmes for health promotion policy and practice in different settings, including workplace, schools, hospitals, communities, prisons and other key settings for health promotion interventions.
Key issues and problems
Topic needs much further development. The keys issues are:
At the moment there is no satisfactory proposal for indicator definition, calculation and data sources.
Scope of this indicator? Because we have to restrict for practical reasons, we may consider a focus on settings like neighbourhoods (especially taking SES differences into account), workplaces, schools. But the key issue is whether meaningful data exist on e.g. budgets for certain specified actions, operation of specified procedures, etc.
Preferred data type and data source
Preferred data type
Policy documents and comparable. Possibly some information can be obtained by interviews.
Preferred data source
Not decided yet.
Data availability
Eurostat, WHO-HfA and OECD: No data available.
Rationale
This is an important area of activities in health promotion -which are not just delivered via lifestyle change strategies alone, but include healthy public policy initiatives. Indicators for monitoring these areas should be developed.
Definition
