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Adoption of knowledge-based strategies as well as the involvement of citizens, stakeholders and multi-sectoral governance are recommended in order to achieve international and national objectives for promoting population health, quality of life and health equity. This demands new skills and changes in the coordination of activities. It also requires the development of trust and the establishment of shared ethics and goals among those involved. These principles are not only crucial for health promotion (HP) activities but also for health promotion research. This chapter presents the Trøndelag model for public health work, a working model for health promotion efforts in municipalities, which aims to enable health promoters to work systematically, multi-sectorally and with a strong knowledge base towards a broad range of health goals in a specific setting in line with the World Health Organization (WHO)’s key principles of health promotion. Attention is paid to crucial research elements that should be considered when implementing and evaluating complex health-promoting initiatives.
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The Trøndelag model for public health work was developed in close collaboration with the Trøndelag county and the municipalities of Malvik, Steinkjer and Vikna and is funded by Regionalt Forskningsfond (RFF). Ongoing research, in the context of “Program for Public Health Work in Municipalities”, in which we make use of the model, is funded by The Research Council of Norway ref. 302705.
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Lillefjell, M., Anthun, K.S., Maass, R.E.K., Innstrand, S.T., Espnes, G.A. (2022). A Salutogenic, Participatory and Settings-Based Model of Research for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions: The Trøndelag Model for Public Health Work. In: Potvin, L., Jourdan, D. (eds) Global Handbook of Health Promotion Research, Vol. 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97212-7_26
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