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The European Journal of Public Health 2003 13(3):235-239; doi:10.1093/eurpub/13.3.235
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Health Policy

Health promotion activities in annual reports of local governments

‘Health for all’ targets as a tool for content analysis

Camilla M. Andersson1,*, Gunilla E.M. Bjärås1, Per Tillgren2 and Claes-Göran Östenson1

1 Diabetes Prevention Unit, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden 2 Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Social Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden and Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden

Background: This article presents an instrument to study the annual reporting of health promotion activities in local governments within the three intervention municipalities of the Stockholm Diabetes Prevention Program (SDPP). The content of health promotion activities are described and the strengths, weaknesses and relevance of the method to health promotion discussed. Method: A content analysis of local governmental reports from 1995–2000 in three Swedish municipalities. A matrix with WHO's 38 ‘Health for All’ (HFA) targets from 1991 was used when coding the local health promotion activities. Results: There are many public health initiatives within the local governmental structure even if they are not always addressed as health promotion. The main focuses in the local governmental reports were environmental issues, unemployment, social care and welfare. Conclusions: Local governmental reports were found to be a useful source of information that could provide knowledge about the priorities and organizational capacities for health promotion within local authorities. Additionally the HFA targets were an effective tool to identify and categorize systematically local health promotion activities in the annual reports of local governments. Identifying local health promotion initiatives by local authorities may ease the development of a health perspective and joint actions within the existing political and administrative structure. This paper provides a complementary method of attaining and structuring information about the local community for developments in health promotion.

Keywords: annual reports, content analysis, ‘Health for All’ targets, municipalities, qualitative method

Received 6 November 2001. Accepted 29 May 2002.

* Correspondence: Camilla M. Andersson, BSc, Diabetes Prevention Unit, Norrbacka, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden, tel. +46 8 5177 5470, fax +46 8 5177 6280, e-mail: camilla.m.andersson{at}ks.se


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