Promoting knowledge to policy translation for urban health using community-based system dynamics in Brazil.

Autor: Morais LMO; Observatory for Urban Health in Belo Horizonte, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Av. Pres. Antônio Carlos, 6627 - Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, MG, 31270-901, Brazil. lidia.salurbal@gmail.com., Kuhlberg J; System Stars, St. Louis, MO, United States of America., Ballard E; System Stars, St. Louis, MO, United States of America.; Social System Design Lab, Brown School At Washington University in St. Louis, 1 Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO, 63130, United States of America., Indvik K; Dornsife School of Public Health, Urban Health Collaborative, Drexel University, 3215 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States of America., Rocha SC; Observatory for Urban Health in Belo Horizonte, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Av. Pres. Antônio Carlos, 6627 - Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, MG, 31270-901, Brazil., Sales DM; Observatory for Urban Health in Belo Horizonte, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Av. Pres. Antônio Carlos, 6627 - Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, MG, 31270-901, Brazil., de Oliveira Cardoso L; Oswaldo Cruz Foundation - National School of Public Health, Rio de Janeiro, R Leopoldo Bulhoes, 1480, room 813, Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, CEP 21041-210, Brazil., Gouveia N; Department of Preventive Medicine, University of São Paulo Medical School, Brazil. Av. Dr. Arnaldo, 455, São PauloCerqueira César, CEP 01246903, Brazil., de Lima Friche AA; Observatory for Urban Health in Belo Horizonte, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Av. Pres. Antônio Carlos, 6627 - Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, MG, 31270-901, Brazil., Caiaffa WT; Observatory for Urban Health in Belo Horizonte, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Av. Pres. Antônio Carlos, 6627 - Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, MG, 31270-901, Brazil.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Health research policy and systems [Health Res Policy Syst] 2021 Apr 01; Vol. 19 (1), pp. 53. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Apr 01.
DOI: 10.1186/s12961-020-00663-0
Abstrakt: Background: Effectively bridging the knowledge-policy gap to support the development of evidence-based policies that promote health and well-being remains a challenge for both the research and policy communities. Community-based system dynamics (CBSD) is a participatory modelling approach that aims to build stakeholders' capacity to learn and address complex problems collaboratively. However, limited evidence is available about the contributions of CBSD to knowledge-generating and policy processes across sectors and policy spheres. In the context of a multi-country research project focused on creating an evidence base to inform urban health policies across Latin America, a series of CBSD workshops convened stakeholders from research, policy-making, and other backgrounds working in food and transportation systems. Diverse participants were selected aiming to incorporate multiple perspectives relevant to understanding complex urban systems linked to food and transportation. This study focuses on one of these workshops, whose avenue was São Paulo, Brazil, assembling country-based participants representing local, regional, national, and international institutions with multidisciplinary backgrounds linked to food and transportation systems.
Objective: The aim of this case study is to explore the perceived influence of one of these workshops on attendees' understandings of food and transportation systems and their relationship to healthy urban environments, with attention to the role of the workshop in supporting knowledge to policy translation for urban health.
Methods: We conducted 18 semi-structured qualitative interviews with attendees one year after their participation in a CBSD workshop held in São Paulo, Brazil. A framework method approach was used to code participants' responses and identify emerging themes.
Results: Participants reported that the workshop's group model-building activities influenced their understanding of the knowledge-policy process as it relates to food and transport systems. Workshop contributed to participants' (1) abilities to engage with multisectoral stakeholders, (2) construct a shared language and understanding of urban challenges, (3) improve understanding of the interconnectedness across food and transportation systems, (4) facilitate dialogue across sectors, and (5) apply a systems thinking approach within their sector and professional context. Participants continued to draw on the tools developed during the workshop, and to apply systems thinking to their research and policy-making activities.
Conclusions: CBSD may offer valuable opportunities to connect the research sector to the policy-making process. This possibility may contribute to knowledge to policy translation in the interconnection between the urban context, food and transportation systems, and health.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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