Surveillance: Making Health Promotion Accountable
Objective:
The aim of this sub-plenary is to share the carried out by the IUPHE’s Global Working Group (GWG) on Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance with a larger audience. In particular, each speaker will be asked to end his/her presentation with a “key statement” to summarize his/her position and a “key question” addressed to the public.
Since the work done by the GWG will be summarized in a final document (“Surveillance White Paper”) that will be shared with the participants, the GWG would like to use this opportunity for engaging Health Promotion professionals as panelists to discuss among themselves and with the audience the role of surveillance as suggested in the “White Paper”, rather than having only panelists from the GWG. GWG members will be present to contribute to the dialogue.
Key messages/questions:
- What is a BRF surveillance system? What are the key characteristics that make it different from a general health survey?
- What is surveillance for? How can it really help Health Promotion?
- What are the methodological challenges that surveillance has to address?
- Sustainability. What helps a surveillance system running?
- Data use. How valuable is the information offered by surveillance?
- What is the untapped potential of surveillance? What are its limitations?
Proposed format:
Debate and Dialogue
Links to conference theme(s):
The debate and dialogue will include a specific focus on the links between health, equity and sustainable development with a particular attention to Social Determinants Surveillance.
Chair:
- Prof. Stefano Campostrini, Departiment of statistics – Head, University ca' foscari of Venice, Italy
- Professor John Frank, Director of the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy and holds a Chair at University of Edinburgh in Public Health Research and Policy, Scotland, UK
- Dr. Colin Sindall, Senior Advisor, Population Health Division, Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, Canberra, Australia
- Prof. Pekka Jousilahti, Research Professor, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Secretary General of the International Association of National Public Health Institutes (IANPHI). Helsinki, Finland
- Dr. Leanne Riley, Team Leader Surveillance, WHO, Surveillance and Population-based Prevention, Department of Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion, Geneva, Switzerland
- Dr. Deb Lubar, Branch Chief, Arthritis, Epilepsy, and Quality of Life Branch, Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC, Atlanta, USA
