Post on 23-Dec-2015
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Health Promoting Hospitals Development and Challenges
Oliver Gröne, Technical Officer Health Services
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
European Office for
Integrated Health Care Services
Barcelona, Spain
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What is a health promoting hospital?
Why is/was it necessary to have a programme like this?
What are the principles and strategies of HPH?
What have been the main developments in the last ten years?
What are the future challenges for HPH?
Outline of the presentation
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What is a HPH?
The aim of a health promoting hospital is:
to provide high quality comprehensive medical and nursing services,
to develop a corporate identity that embraces the aims of health promotion,
to develop a health promoting organizational structure and culture and
to develop itself into a health promoting physical environment that actively cooperates with its community. (WHO HPH Infopackage 2001)
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Why hospitals?
Prevalence of chronic disease and quality-of-life enhancing treatments Enhance health literacy
Hazardous working conditions in hospitals Reduce risks and improve working conditions
Production of waste and hazardous substances Ecological approach towards waste, energy
management
Hospitals as knowledge-organizations Intersectoral development of HP activities for
community orientation
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What is a HPH?
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Shared responsibility [...] to work together towards a health care system which contributes to the pursuit of health;
A move of the health sector in a health promotion direction, beyond clinical and curative services;
A need of health services to embrace an expanded mandate which is sensitive and respects cultural needs;
A stronger attention to health research and professional education and training conducive to changes in the organization of health services ...
Ottawa Charter: Reorienting Health Services
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Settings for health
Health Promotion “is the process of enabling people to increase control over,
and improve, their health.”
“Health is created and lived by people within the settings of everyday life; where they
learn, work, play, and love.”(WHO Ottawa Charter 1986)
Health Promotion not only has to address individual behavior, but underlying
norms, rules and cultures.
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“The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion [...] included as one of the five components of health promotion action, the notion of reorienting health services.
Since then ... Little progress has been attained in defining an explicit, detailed and commonly agreed upon framework for implementing changes in a systematic fashion.”López-Acuña et al. 2000: Reorienting health systems and services. Fifth Global Conference on Health Promotion
Progress since Ottawa?
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Evolution of the HPH Network
1988: 1st International consultation on the possibility of Health promotion in and by hospitals
1989: WHO model project “Health and Hospital” withRudolpfstiftung in Vienna, Austria
1990: Initiation of the International Network of Health Promoting Hospitals by WHO EURO
1993: Initiation of the European Pilot Hospital Project by WHO EURO (1993-1997, involving 20 hospitals in 11 countries)
1997: Subsequent development of national/regionalnetworks
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Distribution of HPH in Europe
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1993 “Establishing New Structures of the Network: The European Pilot Hospital Project & Tobacco-Free Hospitals” in Warsaw, Poland
1994 “Developing HP Organizations by Strengthening Intersectoral and Community Action of Hospitals & Healthy Nutrition Policies for the Hospital”, Padova, Italy
1995 “Health Gain Measurements as a Tool for Hospital Management and
Health Policy”, Linköping, Sweden 1996 “Health Promoting Hospitals: A Vision for Development in Times of
Change”, Londonderry, Northern Ireland 1997 “From Projects to Networks: Effectiveness, Quality Assurance and
Sustainability of Health Promoting Hospital Projects”, Vienna, Austria 1998 “Health Promoting Hospitals: Healthy Workplace, Clinical Centre of
Excellence, Partner for Comprehensive Care & Ally for Public Health + Health Promoting Psychiatric Hospitals” Darmstadt, Germany
International Conferences on HPH
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1999 “Health Promotion and Quality Challenges and Opportunities
for Health Promoting Hospitals”, Swansea, Wales 2000 “The Health Promoting Hospital in the 21st Century”, Athens,
Greece 2001 “Health Promoting Hospitals in a National Health Policy
Perspective – Evidence in Health Promotion”, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 16-18
2002 “The contribution of HPH to reorient health services: Improving health gain by developing partnerships and quality”, May 15-17, Bratislava, Slovakia 2003 “Re-orienting hospitals for better health in Europe: New governance, patient orientation and cultural diversity in hospitals” Florence, Italy
International Conferences on HPH
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Do we know if we are doing well?
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Already in the 19th century, Florence Nightingale was concerned about the shortcomings of hospital information systems:
“In attempting to arrive at the truth, I have applied everywhere for information, but in scarcely an instance have I been able to obtain hospital records fit for any purpose of comparison.
If they could be obtained, they would enable us to decide many other questions besides the one alluded to.They would show subscribers how their money was being spent, what amount of good was really being done with it, or whether the money was not doing mischief rather than good.” (Nightingale 1863)
Do we know if we are doing well?
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Stage of HPH development (1/2)
“... The settings approach to health promotion is about much more than introducing a variety of opportunities for individuals using the hospital to change their behavior.”*
1. Doing a health promotion project?2. Delegating it to the role of a specific division,
department or staff?3. Being a health promoting setting?4. Being a health promoting setting and improving the
health of the community?
* Johnson, A. & Baum, F. Health Promoting Hospitals: A Typology of different organizational approaches to health promotion. Health Promotion International 2001, 16, 3, 281-287motion International 2001, 16, 3, 281-287
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Stage of HPH development (2/2)
1. Ad hoc projects: No re-orientation of whole organization or staff roles; Starting point when no support from senior management is available?
2. Specified department deals with HP, but it is not integrated into overall organization: Developmental phase or dead-end?
3. HP is cross-sectional issue in hospital: Hospital is HP setting, but rare community intervention.
4. Hospital takes overall responsibility for and improves community health: Vision or reality?
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Systematic implementation of health promotion in hospitals?
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Systematic implementation
Evidence-base for health promotion in hospitals Comprehensive framework for HPH development Standards for health promotion in hospitals Health promotion and EFQM Task force on Health Promoting Psychiatric
hospitals Task force on Health Promotion for Children and
Adolescents Reimbursement of health promotion activities
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www.euro.who.int/healthpromohosp
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