Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

The Diabetes Educator

SAGETRACK

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Qualitative Health Research
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in Web of Science
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Web of Science (8)
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Joffres, C.
Right arrow Articles by MacLean, D. R.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Joffres, C.
Right arrow Articles by MacLean, D. R.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Facilitators and Challenges to Organizational Capacity Building in Heart Health Promotion

Christine Joffres

Centre for Clinical Research, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Stephanie Heath

Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Jane Farquharson

Heart and Stroke Foundation of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada

Kari Barkhouse

Public Health Services, South Shore Health, Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Canada

Celeste Latter

Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada

David R. MacLean

Institute for Health Research & Education (IHRE), Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

The authors describe the facilitators and challenges to a multisectoral initiative aiming at building organizational capacity for heart health promotion in Nova Scotia, Canada. The research process was guided by participatory action research. The study included 21 organizations from diverse sectors. Participant selection for the data collection was purposive. The authors collected data through organizational reflection logs and one-to-one semistructured interviews and used grounded theory techniques for the data analyses. Factors influencing organizational capacity for heart health promotion varied, depending on the project stage. Nonetheless, leadership, organizational readiness, congruence, research activities, technical supports, and partnerships were essential to capacity-building efforts. Approaches to organizational capacity building should be multileveled, because organizations are influenced by multiple social systems that are not all equally supportive of capacity.

Key Words: organizational capacity building • heart health • health promotion

Qualitative Health Research, Vol. 14, No. 1, 39-60 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1049732303259802
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Eur J Public HealthHome page
N. Hanusaik, J. L O'Loughlin, N. Kishchuk, G. Paradis, and R. Cameron
Organizational capacity for chronic disease prevention: A survey of Canadian public health organizations
Eur J Public Health, October 20, 2009; (2009) ckp140v1.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 COMMUNITY DEV JHome page
J. W. Higgins, P.-J. Naylor, and M. Day
Seed funding for health promotion: sowing sustainability or skepticism?
Community Dev. J., April 1, 2008; 43(2): 210 - 221.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Health Promot PractHome page
K. L. Robinson, M. S. Driedger, S. J. Elliott, and J. Eyles
Understanding Facilitators of and Barriers to Health Promotion Practice
Health Promot Pract, October 1, 2006; 7(4): 467 - 476.
[Abstract] [PDF]