Optimisation: defining and exploring a concept to enhance the impact of public health initiatives.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Repeated, data-driven optimisation processes have been applied in many fields to rapidly transform the performance of products, processes and interventions. While such processes may similarly be employed to enhance the impact of public health initiatives, optimisation has not been defined in the context of public health and there has been little exploration of its key concepts.

Methods

We used a modified, three-round Delphi study with an international group of researchers, public health policy-makers and practitioners to (1) generate a consensus-based definition of optimisation in the context of public health and (2i) describe key considerations for optimisation in that context. A pre-workshop literature review and elicitation of participant views regarding optimi

SUBMITTER: Wolfenden L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6937822 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature