- Title
- Comparing and contrasting 'innovation platforms' with other forms of professional networks for strengthening primary healthcare systems for Indigenous Australians
- Creator
- Bailie, Jodie; Cunningham, Frances Clare; Peiris, David; Bainbridge, Roxanne Gwendalyn; Passey, Megan E.; Laycock, Alison Frances; Bailie, Ross Stewart; Larkins, Sarah L.; Brands, Jenny S. M.; Ramanathan, Shanthi; Abimbola, Seye
- Relation
- Funding BodyNHMRCGrant Number1078927 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1078927
- Relation
- BMJ Global Health Vol. 3, no. e000683
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000683
- Publisher
- BMJ Global Health
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- Efforts to strengthen health systems require the engagement of diverse, multidisciplinary stakeholder networks. Networks provide a forum for experimentation and knowledge creation, information exchange and the spread of good ideas and practice. They might be useful in addressing complex issues or ‘wicked’ problems, the solutions to which go beyond the control and scope of any one agency. Innovation platforms are proposed as a novel type of network because of their diverse stakeholder composition and focus on problem solving within complex systems. Thus, they have potential applicability to health systems strengthening initiatives, even though they have been predominantly applied in the international agricultural development sector. In this paper, we compare and contrast the concept of innovation platforms with other types of networks that can be used in efforts to strengthen primary healthcare systems, such as communities of practice, practice-based research networks and quality improvement collaboratives. We reflect on our ongoing research programme that applies innovation platform concepts to drive large-scale quality improvement in primary healthcare for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians and outline our plans for evaluation. Lessons from our experience will find resonance with others working on similar initiatives in global health.
- Subject
- innovation platforms; primary healthcare systems; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians; practice-based research networks
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1386922
- Identifier
- uon:32486
- Identifier
- ISSN:2059-7908
- Rights
- This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
- Language
- eng
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