Health policy development in Flemish small-sized municipalities: a real-world intervention
- De Cocker, Katrien
- Dubuy, Veerle
- De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse
- Maes, Lea
- Seghers, Jan
- Lefevre, Johan
- De Martelaer, Kristine
- Buytaert, Bruno
- Cardon, Greet
DOIAbstract
Background: A health promotion institute developed an intervention to support small-sized municipalities (<15,000 citizens; n=167) in their development of a local health policy. Objectives: To (1) find out which municipalities showed interest to participate; (2) assess the intervention effects after one year. Methods: The intervention consisted of (1) completing an online tool which generated feedback on the quality level of the health policy (9 scores) and (2) receiving advice (four contacts) from the local-regional support service for health promotion. In total 121 small-sized municipalities agreed to participate (=intervention municipalities), the non-participating municipalities (n=46) were used as a comparison group. Chi-square tests w...
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