Findings from University of Oslo Has Provided New Data on Managed Care (Local Public Health Projectification In Practice: a Qualitative Study of Facilitators and Barriers To a Public Health Plan Implementation): Managed Care

2022 APR 21 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Fresh data on Managed Care are presented in a new report. According to news reporting out of Oslo, Norway, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “To identify factors perceived by local government employees to affect the implementation of a municipal public health plan. Qualitative individual interviews (n=13) were carried out.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of Oslo, “Participants were sampled from three districts in Oslo municipality, Norway, and asked about their experiences with an ongoing implementation of the Oslo Public Health Plan (2017-2020). The conceptual framework of public sector projectification - a growing reliance on project organisation of policies - informed the study. The consolidated framework for implementation research was used to aid data coding and subsequent thematic analysis. Implementation facilitators included factors perceived to support flexibility, including plan adaptability to the local setting, and factors perceived to enable structure and control during the implementation process, such as the articulation of specific goals and a shared understanding of public health work. Barriers were mainly related to complex aspects of the plan, such as the need to involve multiple stakeholders and levels of governance, and to tensions between the time-limited implementation process and the permanent organisational structures. This study has demonstrated how research-based methods can be used for the evaluation of a local community implementation process. It has identified implementation determinants using a predetermined taxonomy of operationally defined factors that are likely to influence implementation.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “However, while implementing a time-limited public health plan can be seen as ‘taking action’ in relation to multidimensional and complex problems, further research is needed to investigate whether plan implementation has a long-term impact on the surrounding organisation and, eventually, on public health outcomes.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Local Public Health Projectification In Practice: a Qualitative Study of Facilitators and Barriers To a Public Health Plan Implementation. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 2022:140349482210804. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health can be contacted at: Sage Publications Ltd, 1 Olivers Yard, 55 City Road, London EC1Y 1SP, England. (Sage Publications - http://www.sagepub.com/; Scandinavian Journal of Public Health - sjp.sagepub.com)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Heidi M. Nilsen, University of Oslo, Dept. of Health Management and Health Economics, Pob 1089, N-0317 Oslo, Norway.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948221080402. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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