As some of you know, the CAPTURE platform will provide data collection tools for many common outcomes in health promotion programming. I am pleased to let you know that we have started working on developing data collection tools for capturing process and outcome data in four areas: partnering; stakeholder engagement; knowledge transfer and exchange; and sustainability. Our first foray into the world of common outcomes is in service of one of the other strategic funding programs of the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, the CLASPs (Coalitions Linking Action and Science for Prevention). When I think about vast landscape of health promotion outcomes, I am pleased we are starting here. These programming areas are common to many, if not most, health promotion strategies and programs, particularly since the prevention of chronic disease has come to be viewed as a complex problem requiring the cooperation of multiple actors across multiple sectors.
We are in the process of conducting literature searches of the peer-reviewed and grey literatures to find validated or promising data collection tools for partnering, stakeholder engagement, knowledge transfer and exchange and sustainability. If you know of any reviews, tools, or have developed your own tools, please let us know (thanks very much to Lihong Sun of the Vancouver Island Health Authority, and James Coyle of Interior Health, fellow members of the BC Health Evaluation Community of Practice, for pointing out two very helpful articles on sustainability and partnering. We will keep you posted on our progress and will continue to ask for your help, as we populate the world of outcomes!
