Best practices in health promotion and disease prevention

Best practices in health promotion and disease prevention

Contact
Stefan Schreck
Main Organisation
DG for Health and Food Safety
Department/Sector/Unit
DG SANTE - Unit C1

Description

Stakeholders are invited to submit their practices (projects, interventions) in the field of health promotion and disease prevention to the Best Practice Portal: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/dyna/bp-portal/

All submission are evaluated against a set of criteria proposed by DG SANTE and adopted by the Member States. Those practices which meet the criteria, are seen as "best" and published on the Best Practice Portal. In addition, the "owner" (i.e. project manager or coordinator) of the best practice received a certificate from the hands of DG SANTE, in collaboration with DG EAC and DG AGRI, see: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_19_3028 and https://twitter.com/eu_health (tweets from 19 June).

In addition, all best practice owners could present their practice to Member State representatives in a workshop: https://ec.europa.eu/health/non_communicable_diseases/events/ev_2019062…

Participation Spectrum
Consult

When and Where

Start Year
2019

Policy Context

Policy Stage
Implementation Phase
Context of activity
Part of a policy development process (initiated by a DG or EP)
Science or Policy Field
Agriculture
Health
Specific Topic
Health promotion and disease prevention, promoting a healthy lifestyle.

Participants

Participants
16
Who was involved
Field Experts
Other
Other participants
Best Practice Owners
How were the Participants selected?
Other
Through what means citizens knew about the call for participation?
Wide online submission of the option to submit a practice e.g. via the Health Policy Platform.

Methodologies

Events
1
Methodologies used
Other
Methodology description
The evaluation used the criteria adopted by the Member States: https://ec.europa.eu/health/sites/health/files/major_chronic_diseases/docs/sgpp_bestpracticescriteria_en.pdf
The practice owners actively communicated the fact that they received a certificate via social media.
Tools Used
Social Media
Other
Best practice portal
Spaces Used
Other
Hotels

Impact

Output
Other
The idea is that other Member States pick-up the best practice and transfer it to their country.
Main Outcomes and Lasting Achievement
Member States can indicate if they are interested to transfer a best practice to their country and such work can be supported from the EU Health Programme. The first projects selected in previous rounds (without awarding certificates) have started, so practices are already being transferred between countries.
> https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/chafea_pdb/health/projects/847130/summary
> https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/chafea_pdb/health/projects/847174/summary
How were the outcome taken up within the process they were carried out?
To early to say.
Feedback provided
Other
Other Feedback
The certificates were the feedback
Were the methodologies used elsewhere?
We took the idea from presenting certificates from DG CNECT that presented certificates to regional authorities, but we focused on citizens i.e. the practice owners.

Assessment

Main Challenges
Language barriers
Few human resources to carry out activity
Reason for such challenges and solutions
Not all practice owners spoke English well, so in some cases they did not come themselves, but send a colleague who spoke English. The home institution of the practice in 2 cases did not see the benefit for the local level to receive a certificate of recognition in Brussels.
Lessons Learn
They are not involved in the process, but I learned that the EU-level is not known and seen as important at several local levels.
Recommendation
Even more information and presence of EU actors at local levels.