Two new methods to guide your public health practice!

The method was developed to help organizations use policy influence to improve the uptake and evaluation of evidence-based population health interventions. The guide includes three public health related case studies: healthy weights among Aboriginal children and youth; anti-bullying for primary schools; and food security and obesity.

The authors reference resources developed for health, public health and health promotion policy. Some resources were included from other sectors like social services or education. This method for evaluating policy-influence initiatives can be used to explore the uptake of population health interventions.

Since this theory was developed to determine organizational readiness for change in general, it can be applied within a public health setting. This model is best suited for examining organizational changes where collective behaviour change is necessary to effectively implement the change and, in some instances, for the change to produce anticipated benefits.