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Using the TRANSLATE Framework to Support Practice Transformation: Perspectives of a Practice Facilitator

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: I n 2008, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) awarded Statewide Health Improve ment Partnership (SHIP) funding to community health boards (CHBs), the legal govern ing authority for local public health in Minnesota.Each CHB represents a minimum of 30,000 residents and in some rural areas spans multiple counties.CHBs partner with MDH to address areas of public health responsibility, including but not limited to the promotion of healthy behaviors and healthy communities.Herein we report on the SHIP initiative in which the MDH directed CHBs to partner with schools, worksites, communities, and health care organizations to address obesity and tobacco use/exposure via policy, system, and environmental changes.With regard to the health care component, the MDH asked each CHB to select one of Abstract Background: In 2008, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) awarded Statewide Health Improvement Partnership (SHIP) funding to community health boards (CHBs), directing them to partner with schools, worksites, com mu ni ties, and health care to address obesity and tobacco use/exposure.Methods: Each CHB selected one of two health care strategies: implement obesity and healthy lifestyle guidelines or connect clinics to community resources.The CHB in rural west-central Minnesota chose to champion clinical guideline implementation, assigning one of its own county-level public health nurses the role of practice facilitator (PF).This decision set the stage for a novel community partnership between public health, clinical guideline developers, and local providers of relevant clinical services.Lessons Learned: This community perspective describes how the PF organized support for clinical guideline implementation using the TRANSLATE framework, and explores the capacity of the TRANSLATE framework to accommodate particularities of clinical partners that is necessary in working to transform evidence-based knowledge into real-world practice.

Source: Progress in community health partnerships

DOI: 10.1353/cpr.2017.0011

Authors: Kristin J. Erickson, Milton "Mickey" Eder

Institutions: Florida Department of Health in Orange County, Monroe County Department of Public Health, San Bernardino County Department of Public Health, University of Minnesota

Language: English

Topic: Health Policy Implementation Science

Subfield: General Health Professions

Field: Health Professions

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Partnerships for the goals

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: Minnesota Department of Health, National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences