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Planning and Practice Improvement Tools and Guides
The Planning Framework project (1998-2000) produced a common planning
method for specifying interventions to address public health issues.
It describes a six-step process to planning interventions which includes:
analysing the determinants of public health problems; assessing the need
to act by estimating the anticipated risks and benefits: identifying and
evaluating the evidence on interventions; deciding the best mix of interventions
which will comprise the portfolio; implementing and evaluating action.
Planning Framework – Six-step process
Note 1: The cycle has been adapted
from A Framework for Environmental Health Risk Management. The US Presidential
Congressional Commission on Risk Management 1997.
Supporting documentation and case studies
A Planning Framework for Public
Health Practice – (2000) [PDF, 247k]
This document sets out a systematic approach to planning the provision
of public health interventions.
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An Intervention Portfolio to Promote the Consumption of Fruit
and Vegetables
Part 1 – The Process and Portfolio
(2nd ed, November 2001) [PDF, 710k]
Part 2 – Review of Interventions
(2000) [PDF, 642k]
The nutrition case study publication comes in two parts. The first describes
the process of developing the intervention portfolio including the information
gathered, how it was evaluated and how decisions to select interventions
were made. The second summarises the evidence for the interventions selected.
Promoting Active Transport
– An Intervention Portfolio to Increase Physical Activity as a Means
of Transport – (2001) [PDF, 374k]
‘Active transport’ means physical activity undertaken as a
means of transport. Increased active transport is likely to have significant
direct health benefits as well as indirect benefits from reduced environmental
pollution and increased community cohesion. The portfolio pilot assessed
the literature, and considered current practice and knowledge to identify
a mix of interventions considered by experts to have the most potential
to be effective.
Deciding and Specifying an Intervention
Portfolio: A User’s Guide – (2000) [PDF,
268k]
This publication provides a practical guide to portfolio selection for
public health decision-makers, which is consistent with the National Public
Health Partnership’s Planning Framework for Public Health Practice.
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