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Santos JV, Martins FS, Vidal-Castro J, Silva-Rocha S, Areias R, Oliveira A, Santos S, Lamelas C, Amorim H, Martins A, Vieira M, Ramos JP, Pinto M. Indicators for local health plan monitoring and evaluation: A modified Delphi consensus. Public Health Nurs 2021; 39:752-759. [PMID: 34935199 DOI: 10.1111/phn.13036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2021] [Revised: 11/24/2021] [Accepted: 12/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE There is still a lack of health indicators for monitoring and evaluating health planning at the local level. In Portugal, local health plans (LHP) include a prioritized set of health priorities, which should be monitored and evaluated. This study is an example of a low-resource method to identify and reuse indicators for LHP monitoring and evaluation already collected for other purposes. DESIGN AND SAMPLE A modified Delphi consensus method was applied, with three rounds of email rating questionnaires and a final meeting, between January 2018 and January 2019. The Delphi panel consisted of eight members from the Planning and Administration Group of the Espinho/Gaia Local Public Health Unit. MEASUREMENTS Panelists were asked to assess the indicators' validity for monitoring diseases/determinants from a pre-selected list of potential binomials between 140 PHC indicators and 15 diseases/determinants. RESULTS After four rounds, there was consensus in considering 141 binomials (34.0%) as appropriate, diabetes mellitus being the disease with more appropriate indicators. CONCLUSION This study portrays the applicability of a commonly used, easy and low-resource method in a Portuguese Local Public Health Unit to select and reuse primary health care indicators for LHP monitoring and evaluation.
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Affiliation(s)
- João Vasco Santos
- Public Health Unit, ACES Grande Porto VIII - Espinho/Gaia, ARS Norte, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal.,MEDCIDS - Department of Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal.,CINTESIS - Centre for Health Technology and Services Research, Porto, Portugal
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- Public Health Unit, ACES Grande Porto VIII - Espinho/Gaia, ARS Norte, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
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- Public Health Unit, ACES Entre Douro e Vouga II - Aveiro Norte, ARS Norte, Porto, Portugal
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- Public Health Unit, ACES Alto Ave - Guimarães, Vizela e Terras de Basto, ARS Norte, Porto, Portugal
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- Public Health Unit, ACES Grande Porto VIII - Espinho/Gaia, ARS Norte, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
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- Public Health Unit, ACES Grande Porto VIII - Espinho/Gaia, ARS Norte, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
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- Public Health Unit, ACES Grande Porto VIII - Espinho/Gaia, ARS Norte, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
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- Public Health Unit, ACES Entre Douro e Vouga I - Feira/Arouca, ARS Norte, Porto, Portugal
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- Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Subgroup of Terrorism and Security of the Crime and Justice Group of Campbell Collaboration, Porto, Portugal
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- CINTESIS - Centre for Health Technology and Services Research, Porto, Portugal.,Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.,Subgroup of Terrorism and Security of the Crime and Justice Group of Campbell Collaboration, Porto, Portugal
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Robinson AC, MacEachren AM, Roth RE. Designing a web-based learning portal for geographic visualization and analysis in public health. Health Informatics J 2012; 17:191-208. [PMID: 21937462 DOI: 10.1177/1460458211409718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Interactive mapping and spatial analysis tools are under-utilized by health researchers and decision-makers as a result of scarce training materials, few examples demonstrating the successful use of geographic visualization, and poor mechanisms for sharing results generated by geovisualization. Here, we report on the development of the Geovisual EXplication(G-EX) Portal, a web-based application designed to connect researchers in geovisualization and related mapping sciences, to users who are working in public health and epidemiology. This paper focuses on the design and development of the G-EX Portal Learn module, a set of tools intended to disseminate learning artifacts. Initial design and development of the G-EX Portal has been guided by our past research on the use and usability of geovisualization in public health. As part of the iterative design and development process, we conducted a needs assessment survey with targeted end-users, which we report on here. The survey focused on users' current learning habits, their preferred kind of learning artifacts and issues they may have with contributing learning artifacts to web portals. Survey results showed that users desire a diverse set of learning artifacts in terms of both formats and topics covered. Results also revealed a willingness of users to contribute both learning artifacts and personal information that would help other users to evaluate the credibility of the learning artifact source. We include a detailed description of the G-EX Portal Learn module and focus on modifications to the design of the Learn module as a result from feedback we received from our survey.
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- Anthony C Robinson
- GeoVISTA Center, Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
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