ODHIN Optimizing delivery of health care interventions

WP 7 - From Science to Policy - future challenges and dialogues

Lead by Peter Anderson - Newcastle University (NU), United Kingdom

The overall concept of ODHIN was to increase knowledge of how to optimize the delivery of identification and brief interventions (IBI) for hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption in Primary Health Care (PHC), through a better understanding of how to translate the results of clinical research in everyday practice in PHC settings.

An additional objective was to translate the research results in clinical practice - through national and EU-level decision-maker dialogues -, and to develop a strategy and materials on effective approaches to adopting IBI into daily practice and making them available to the general population, in order to:

1. disseminate the findings amongst the scientific community
2. form a critical mass of IBI implementation researchers (network)
3. update and expand the clinical evidence-based database on effective and cost-effective IBI measures for use in PHC
4. To translate science into easily understandable conclusions and recommendations for primary health care professionals, policy makers and the public

Work package 7 outputs

• A series of 6 concise factsheets (also in non-English language versions) on the ODHIN research findings, giving information for policy advisors, programme managers and funders of health services on the implementation of screening and brief interventionfor heavy drinking in every day practice
• Deliverable 7.1 Future challenges guidance
• e-Reader Guidance for the future governance of delivering screening and brief intervention programmes for heavy drinking in primary health care, based on the findings of the ODHIN Project
• e-Guidance for primary health care providers, commissioners and funders
• Evidence-based database on on effective and cost-effective IBI measures for use in PHC
• Milestone 6  - a series of policy dialogues with country decision makers celebrated in the first half of the project: Catalonia, Czech Republic, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Sweden (for logged-in users)
• A final dialogue between ODHIN scientists and decision makers.
  • Scientific Publications
    • Internet applications for screening and brief interventions for alcohol in primary care settings-implementation and sustainability
    • Brief Interventions Implementation on Alcohol from the European Health Systems Perspective
    • From efficacy to effectiveness and beyond: What next for brief interventions in primary care?

Material in other lenguages

• A medicina geral e familiar e a abordagem do consumo de álcool : detecção e intervenções breves no âmbito dos cuidados de saúde primários (PT)
• Rastreio do consumo de álcool nos cuidados de saúde primários - atitudes dos utentes (PT)