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Title: Local governments’ decade of organisational change to promote child health and wellbeing: a Western Australian qualitative study
Authors: Stoneham, Melissa
Edmunds, Melinda
Pollard, Christina
Keywords: policy
local government
advocacy
children
health
environment
organisational capacity
Issue Date: Aug-2021
Publisher: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
Series/Report no.: Government Legislation;355-363
Abstract: Objective: We aim to reflect on the introduction of risk-based approaches to public health, driven by legislation outlining the expected local government public health functions and roles by identifying factors that most influenced organisational change within the Western Australia local government sector when developing and submitting child and young people’s health and social policy to an annual Awards program. Methods: This paper uses 10 years of data from a WA-based Local Government Policy Awards scheme to identify planned organisational change within the local government sector by applying a tangible organisational change model to develop a change narrative to describe factors that influenced local governments to address public health. Semi-structured interviews of 83 local government officers over the 10 years since implementation were used to create the narrative and identify factors that strengthened or hindered policy development and implementation at the local organisational level. Results: Participant interviews highlighted that the Policy Award Scheme contributed to steps outlined in the Pettigrew et al. (1992) stepped model of organisational change theory to support policy development. Implications for public health: Few studies have explored these elements in their own right. We argue that advocacy for structured policy development is continually needed to support and promote internal policy prioritisation and implementation in practice.
URI: http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/4464
ISSN: 1753-6405.13128
Appears in Collections:VOL 45 NO 4

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