Rethinking health planning: A framework for organising information to underpin collaborative health planning
The field of collaborative health planning faces significant challenges created by the narrow focus of the available information, the absence of a framework to organise that information and the lack of systems to make information accessible and guide decision-making. These challenges have been magni...
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| author | Gudes, Ori Kendall, E. Yigitcaniar, T. Pathak, K. Baum, S. |
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| description | The field of collaborative health planning faces significant challenges created by the narrow focus of the available information, the absence of a framework to organise that information and the lack of systems to make information accessible and guide decision-making. These challenges have been magnified by the rise of the ‘healthy communities movement’, resulting in more frequent calls for localised, collaborative and evidence-driven health related decision-making. This paper discusses the role of decision support systems as a mechanism to facilitate collaborative health decision-making. The paper presents a potential information management framework to underpin a health decision support system and describes the participatory process that is currently being used to create an online tool for health planners using geographic information systems. The need for a comprehensive information management framework to guide the process of planning for healthy communities has been emphasised. The paper also underlines the critical importance of the proposed framework not only in forcing planners to engage with the entire range of health determinants, but also in providing sufficient flexibility to allow exploration of the local setting-based determinants of health. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-45892017-01-30T10:40:12Z Rethinking health planning: A framework for organising information to underpin collaborative health planning Gudes, Ori Kendall, E. Yigitcaniar, T. Pathak, K. Baum, S. evidence-based healthcare collaboration health planning healthy people programs primary healthcare community health planning clinical decision support systems information management The field of collaborative health planning faces significant challenges created by the narrow focus of the available information, the absence of a framework to organise that information and the lack of systems to make information accessible and guide decision-making. These challenges have been magnified by the rise of the ‘healthy communities movement’, resulting in more frequent calls for localised, collaborative and evidence-driven health related decision-making. This paper discusses the role of decision support systems as a mechanism to facilitate collaborative health decision-making. The paper presents a potential information management framework to underpin a health decision support system and describes the participatory process that is currently being used to create an online tool for health planners using geographic information systems. The need for a comprehensive information management framework to guide the process of planning for healthy communities has been emphasised. The paper also underlines the critical importance of the proposed framework not only in forcing planners to engage with the entire range of health determinants, but also in providing sufficient flexibility to allow exploration of the local setting-based determinants of health. 2010 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/4589 http://www.himaa.org.au/members/journal/HIMJ_39_2_2010/Gudes_et_al_Rethinking_health_planning.pdf Health Information Management Association of Australia restricted |
| spellingShingle | evidence-based healthcare collaboration health planning healthy people programs primary healthcare community health planning clinical decision support systems information management Gudes, Ori Kendall, E. Yigitcaniar, T. Pathak, K. Baum, S. Rethinking health planning: A framework for organising information to underpin collaborative health planning |
| title | Rethinking health planning: A framework for organising information to underpin collaborative health planning |
| title_full | Rethinking health planning: A framework for organising information to underpin collaborative health planning |
| title_fullStr | Rethinking health planning: A framework for organising information to underpin collaborative health planning |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rethinking health planning: A framework for organising information to underpin collaborative health planning |
| title_short | Rethinking health planning: A framework for organising information to underpin collaborative health planning |
| title_sort | rethinking health planning: a framework for organising information to underpin collaborative health planning |
| topic | evidence-based healthcare collaboration health planning healthy people programs primary healthcare community health planning clinical decision support systems information management |
| url | http://www.himaa.org.au/members/journal/HIMJ_39_2_2010/Gudes_et_al_Rethinking_health_planning.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/4589 |