This paper applies insights from governance and multi-level governance (MLG) studies to the analysis of Social Partnership in order to: (1) outline a methodological approach for the study of Social Partnership over time; and (2) to provide neutral framework for analysis that will facilitate the collection of empirical evidence that may contribute (either positively or negatively) to the theoris...

INTRODUCTION The Public Health Agency of Canada's Multi-sectoral Partnerships Initiative, administered by the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention (CCDP), brings together diverse partners to design, implement and advance innovative approaches for improving population health. This article describes the development and initial priorities of an action research project (a learning and improvement ...

Purpose Computing ethics represents a long established, yet rapidly evolving, discipline that grows in complexity and scope on near-daily basis. Therefore, to help understand some of it is essential incorporate range perspectives, from stakeholders, current emerging ethical challenges associated with computer technology. This study aims achieve this by using, three-pronged, stakeholder analysis...

More than 20 years after the first International Conference on Nutrition (ICN), the second ICN (ICN2) cannot use a “business as usual” approach. The world has profoundly changed and nutrition has profoundly changed, as nutrition is now recognized as being multi-sectoral, multi-level, multi-stakeholder and multi-disciplinary. There is demand from countries for practical tools, guidelines, and sh...

Despite the multiple stakeholder-centered complexities involved, public–private partnership (PPP) modality is increasingly vehicle of choice for provision public services in developing world. This article asks how PPPs might overcome sustainability challenges a meaningful way while examining which interventions are effective facilitating rather than undermining continuity operations. We draw on...

BACKGROUND A community public health programme, 'Breathing Space', aimed to tackle smoking in a low income area in Scotland. This paper draws on the qualitative process evaluation of a community-based initiative 'Breathing Space', which set out to tackle smoking in a low income area of Scotland, in order to explore user perceptions of key factors affecting implementation, and in particular to e...

Feasibility studies play a crucial role in determining whether complex, community-based interventions should be subject to efficacy testing. Reports of such studies often focus on efficacy potential but less often examine other elements of feasibility, such as acceptance by clients and professionals, practicality, and system integration, which are critical to decisions for proceeding with contr...

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) provides a set of principles and practices intended to foster coproduction of knowledge. However, CBPR often has shortcomings when applied to population-level policy and practice interventions, including a focus on single communities and a lack of focus on policy change. At the same time, community trials focused on policy have shortcomings, includi...