Health Promotion International, Vol. 17, No. 4, 341-350,
December 2002
© Oxford University Press 2002
Reorienting health services with capacity building: a case study of the Core Skills in Health Promotion Project
Graduate School of Public Health, University of Wollongong and 1 Area Health Promotion, Western Sydney Area Health Services, Parramatta BC, Australia
Address for correspondence: Ms Trish Nove Workforce Development Program, Area Health Promotion Western Sydney Area Health Services Locked Bag 7118, Parramatta BC Australia 2150 E-mail: trish_nove{at}wsahs.nsw.gov.au
This paper presents a case study of the application of a framework for capacity building [Hawe, P., King, L., Noort, M., Jordens, C. and Lloyd, B. (2000) Indicators to Help with Capacity Building in Health Promotion. NSW Health, Sydney] to describe actions aimed at building organizational support for health promotion within an area health service in New South Wales, Australia. The Core Skills in Health Promotion Project (CSHPP) arose from an investigation which reported that participants of a health promotion training course had increased health promotion skills but that they lacked the support to apply their skills in the workplace. The project was action-research based. It investigated and facilitated the implementation of a range of initiatives to support community health staff to apply a more preventive approach in their practice and it contributed to the establishment of new organizational structures for health promotion. An evaluation was undertaken 4 years after the CSHPP was established, and 2 years after it had submitted its final report. Interviews with senior managers, document analysis of written reports, and focus groups with middle managers and service delivery staff were undertaken. Change was achieved in the three dimensions of health infrastructure, program maintenance and problem solving capacity of the organization. It was identified that the critically important elements in achieving the aims of the project—partnership, leadership and commitment—were also key elements of the capacity building framework. This case study provides a practical example of the usefulness of the capacity building framework in orienting health services to be supportive of health promotion.
Key words: capacity building; leadership; partnership; reorienting health services
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