Applied Research Collaborations for Health, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Public Health Nutr. 2013 Oct;16(10):1870-8. doi: 10.1017/S1368980012004041. Epub 2012 Sep 12.
Healthy Eating Nova Scotia represents the first provincial comprehensive healthy eating strategy in Canada and a strategy that is framed within a population-health model. Five years after strategy launch, our objective was to evaluate Healthy Eating Nova Scotia to determine perceptions of strategy implementation and strategy outputs. The focus of the current paper is on the findings of this evaluation.
We conducted an evaluation of the strategy through three activities that included a document review, survey of key stakeholders and in-depth interviews with key strategy informants. The findings from each of the activities were integrated to determine what has worked well with strategy implementation, what could be improved and what outputs have resulted.
The evaluation was conducted in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
Participants for this evaluation included survey respondents (n 120) and key informants (n 16). A total of 156 documents were also reviewed.
Significant investments have been made towards inter-sectoral partnerships and resourcing that has provided the necessary leadership and momentum for the strategy. Policy development has been leveraged through the strategy primarily in the health and education sectors and is perceived as a visible success. Clarity of human resource roles and funding within the context of a provincial strategy may be beneficial for continued strategy implementation, as is expansion of policy development.
Known to be the first evaluation of its kind, these findings and related considerations will be of interest to policy makers developing and implementing similar strategies in their own jurisdictions.
健康饮食新斯科舍省代表了加拿大第一个省级全面健康饮食策略，也是一个以人口健康模式为框架的策略。在该策略推出五年后，我们的目标是评估健康饮食新斯科舍省，以确定对战略实施和战略成果的看法。本文的重点是该评估的结果。
我们通过三项活动对该策略进行了评估，包括文献回顾、对主要利益相关者的调查以及对主要策略知情人的深入访谈。整合每项活动的结果，以确定在战略实施过程中哪些方面运作良好，哪些方面可以改进，以及产生了哪些成果。
评估在加拿大新斯科舍省进行。
该评估的参与者包括调查对象（120 人）和主要知情人（16 人）。共审查了 156 份文件。
在跨部门伙伴关系和资源方面进行了重大投资，为该策略提供了必要的领导和动力。主要在卫生和教育部门利用该策略制定了政策，并被视为一个明显的成功。在省级战略背景下明确人力资源角色和资金可能有助于继续实施战略，扩大政策制定也是如此。
作为首个此类评估，这些发现和相关考虑因素将引起制定和实施类似策略的决策者的兴趣。
