Implementation evaluation of a collective impact initiative to promote adolescent health in Oklahoma County, USA.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The teenage birth rate in the USA has considerably decreased in recent decades; however, more innovative, collaborative approaches are needed to promote adolescent health and prevent teenage pregnancy at the community level. Despite literature on the promising results of the collective impact (CI) model for health promotion, there is limited literature on the model's ability to reduce teenage pregnancies in a community. The Central Oklahoma Teen Pregnancy Prevention Collaboration is applying the CI model to foster collaboration among multiple stakeholders with the goal of increasing community and organizational capacity to improve adolescent health outcomes. This paper reports the findings from the initiative's implementation evaluation, which sought to understand whethe

SUBMITTER: Garney WR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8743353 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature