Table 1 Definition of general key terms
From: Health promotion and disease prevention registries in the EU: a cross country comparison
Term | Working definition -/ explanation | Citation |
|---|---|---|
Health promotion and prevention programme registry (HPPR) | “(1) web-based collections of (2) health promotion and disease prevention interventions that use (3) documentable criteria for including and excluding programmes or interventions, and (4) [that] feature evaluative information that could support decision making.” | Burkhardt et al. [8] |
“Best” practice | “Best Practices […] have been shown to be effective in improving the health of the population when implemented in a specific real-life setting and are likely to be replicable in other environments” | Ng and de Colombani [3] |
“Good” practice | Focused on process (how an intervention and its associated effects emerge, adapt and perform in relation to a particular time, space and practice of local implementation) rather than outcomes (assumed isolatable effects of particular interventions into implementation). | Adapted from Barnfield et al. [7] |
Practice | An umbrella term for interventions, projects and programmes that are included in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Registries | Working definition established by members of the working group for the purpose of this article |