Open-access Sustainability analysis of a health promotion intervention in Recife-PE, Brazil

Abstract

Initiatives for promotion of physical activity have been identified as relevant practices in health promotion. The city of Recife-PE, devised and implemented in 2002 a policy called Academia da Cidade Program (ACP). The sustainability of health promotion interventions imposes a challenge to the maintenance of its results. The goal was to analyze the course of events related to the sustainability of the ACP Recife from 2002 to 2016. It is a qualitative evaluative research with a single case study strategy. For data analysis, the thematic content was used. Data was collected using the critical incident technique from 14 interviews with key informants and six focal groups in two periods: from August to December 2010, and June to August 2016; and technical and official documents. A timeline for critical events/incidents related to the program sustainability was created. Data were analyzed according to the following categories: sustainability, mixed and implementation events. Events were classified according to their consequences: favorable or unfavorable to sustainability. The results pointed out to the occurrence of 14 critical events/incidents, most of them with positive consequences to the continuity of the program in the period.

Keywords: health assessment; sustainability; health promotion

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