De Academische Werkplaats Publieke Gezondheid Limburg (AWL) is in 2006 gestart. De AWL kan beschouwd worden als een interventie voor versterkte samenwerking, netwerkvorming en integratie van beleid, onderzoek en praktijk om zodoende de kwaliteit van de publieke gezondheidszorg te bevorderen. Tijdens de uitvoering van het programma is een evaluatiestudie gedaan. Dit artikel behandelt één van de onderzoeksvragen: hoe ziet het samenwerkingsnetwerk rond beleid, onderzoek en praktijk eruit en hoe veranderde dit in de tijd? Netwerkanalyse is ingezet om deze vraag te beantwoorden. Hierin worden de interacties tussen de betrokken actoren beschreven en geanalyseerd. Twee typen relaties zijn bestudeerd: samenwerking in kennisontwikkeling en kennisuitwisseling (adviesrelaties). Drie jaar op rij zijn 103 respondenten, op management en operationeel niveau, gevraagd naar hun onderlinge relaties. In de analyses is gebruik gemaakt van de maten dichtheid, actor centraliteit en groepen. De structuur van de netwerken veranderde niet dramatisch maar er traden wel duidelijk verschuivingen op. In het algemeen hebben de netwerken een lage dichtheid. De dichtheid binnen groepen is meestal hoger dan er tussen. De AWL vervult een duidelijke brugfunctie tussen de verschillende groepen. De structuur wordt op beide niveaus en voor beide relaties in de drie jaar iets dichter. De onderzochte netwerken lijken voldoende hecht om de integratie van wetenschappelijke kennis in praktijk en beleid van de publieke gezondheidszorg te bevorderen. Aangenomen mag worden dat dit bijdraagt aan de gewenste kwaliteitsverbetering. De rol van de AWL blijft voorlopig belangrijk.
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Academic Collaborative Centres to strenghten knowledge development and exchange in public health.
Results from network analysis of the academic collaborative centre in Limburg, the Netherlands.
The Academic Collaborative Centre for Public Health in Limburg, the Netherlands, was set up in 2006. Setting up an academic collaborative centre can be considered an intervention to strengthen the collaboration between municipalities, academic institutions and public health organizations. It was then hoped that by developing this network integration of policy, research and practice would subsequently be enhanced. The overarching goal hereby is to improve the quality of public health care. The paper presents results from an evaluation study which has been conducted during the first phase of program execution. The main research question that guided the research is: how do the collaborative networks of actors in policy, research and practice look after the setup of the collaborative center in Limburg and how do they change over time? We collected data in three successive years with 103 respondents on the ties between the participating organizational entities at the management and operational levels and used quantitative network analysis to assess the evolution of collaborative relationships in the development and exchange of knowledge in local public health. Network graphs provided additional insight. The results show that network structures did not change dramatically during the years under investigation but we nonetheless saw some significant changes towards an enhanced integration of the networks. In general, the networks studied have a relatively low density, however, density within groups is much higher than between groups of organizations from the different domains. In 2010, the last year under investigation, the Academic Collaborative Centre holds a central position in the networks and functions as a broker between the different groups (policy, research and practice). The GGD (public health service) takes a complementary position. We conclude that from a structural perspective a sufficient infrastructure is in place that can facilitate the achievement of the overall goal of the program.
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Hoeijmakers, M., Raab, J. & Jansen, M. Academische werkplaatsen ter versterking van kennisontwikkeling en -uitwisseling in de publieke gezondheidszorg. Tijds. gezondheids.wetenschappen 90, 442–450 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12508-012-0149-y
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