Abstract
Issue/problem
Tools in community health promotion are step‑by‑step guides, instruments, or resources that enable practitioners to assess needs, co-design, implement or evaluate a health programme. Especially participatory and intersectoral tools can help practitioners to engage relevant stakeholders and community members during their programme. Various health promotion pilot projects are to be supported by tools within this project.
Description of the problem
To provide pilot implementors with tools, a systematic literature research is carried out in scientific databases, public health websites and via desk research. Tools are systematically collected for all stages of the health promotion methodology, with a focus on participatory and intersectoral tools. Suitable tools are selected based on criteria such as comprehensibility, generalizability and no need of resources during use. The long‑term aim is to also provide the tools on a platform, so practitioners can quickly find suitable tools at every project stage.
Results
Identified tools so far vary widely in aim, topic, scope, audience, and complexity. Tools covering the aspects of stakeholder identification, needs assessment, prioritization, health asset mapping, and co-creation have been distributed to project partners so far. Various participatory tools have been then applied to engage with local stakeholders and the community. We will present and discuss some examples of tool use in the pilot projects.
Lessons
The tools used were able to support pilot implementers in their health programme. While tools were reported to help facilitate and structure discussions, some tools required individual adaptation before use and others required significant amount of time during application. Local pilot implementers report tools to help facilitate and structure discussions, however, sometimes also requiring a certain time and adaptation effort.