Thesis (M.P.H.)--University of Michigan, 1945.

Thesis (M.P.H.)--University of Michigan, 1945.

Background: The School Health Program (SHP) in the Republic of Panama includes preventive healthcare services delivery and referral issuing at elementary schools nationwide. Despite these early prevention efforts, a majority of referrals are apparently not achieving their desired outcome. This idea is supported by the SHP data showing preventable diseases on the rise. Thus, learning the outcome rates of particular referral outcomes may provide a basis for appropriately targeted action. Methods: Three focus groups were conducted with health workers, medical records staff, and teachers, respectively. Following systems thinking and framework analysis, a pilot plan for referral tracking and referral outcome rates obtainment was developed. Finally, the SHP team was surveyed for their perception on the effectiveness and feasibility of the plan, for future implementation. Results: Themes related to referral tracking led directly to the development of a referral tracking pilot plan (RTPP). Survey data analysis revealed that the SHP team perceived the RTPP as an effective way to obtain complete referral tracking and referral outcome rates, and they also found it feasible to implement. Conclusion: Keeping referral records and tracking the SHP referrals is perceived, by those that will be involved in its delivery, as achievable by implementing a RTPP developed from their own recommendations. Once implemented, the resulting obtainment of referral outcome rates may allow them to know if the SHP preventive objective for issuing these referrals is being properly achieved, and to prioritize for targeted action where needed.

Les Agences Régionales de Santé (ARS) et les Directions Régionales de la Jeunesse, des Sports et de la Cohésion Sociale (DRJSCS) sont invitées, par leur ministère de tutelle, à mettre en œuvre le plan « Sport, Santé, Bien-Etre » dont les finalités ont été arrêtées par l’État central. Consacrant la reconnaissance de l’activité physique en tant que déterminant de santé permise par l’accumulation des savoirs, son institutionnalisation fait également suite à la mobilisation de nombreux entrepreneurs de cause. L’analyse des conditions de sa territorialisation en région Nouvelle-Aquitaine à partir d’une perspective d’instrumentation de l’action publique, donne à voir des effets de ce plan en bien des points ambivalents. Le recours à des opérateurs publics et privés, leur mise en concurrence pilotée à distance par des instruments de type incitatif, la séparation entre commanditaire et prestataire, figurent au titre des processus ayant conduit à la mise en place d’un quasi-marché du « sport santé » dans cette région. Les formes de division du travail observées rendent compte d’un glissement tangible qui semble progressivement cantonner les associations des secteurs sanitaire et sportif au rang d’opérateurs fonctionnels. Elles accélèrent également les mécanismes de diversification de l’offre sportive associative au sein d’un champ longtemps réfractaire à ce type d’évolution. L’ensemble de ces dynamiques permet, plus généralement, de participer aux débats analytiques sur la recomposition des relations entre l’État et les territoires. / The regional Health Agencies (ARS) and the regional Directorates for Youth, Sports and social cohesion (DRJSCS) are invited by their Ministry of Guardianship to implement the plan "Sport, health and well-being", the objectives of which have been adopted by The central state. With the recognition of physical activity as a determinant of health enabled by the accumulation of knowledge, its institutionalization also follows the mobilization of many cause entrepreneurs. The analysis of the conditions of its territorialisation in the new-Aquitaine region from a perspective of instrumentation of public action, gives to see the effects of this plan in many ambivalent points. The use of public and private operators, their remotely-controlled competition by incentive-type instruments, the separation between sponsor and provider, are included in the processes leading to the establishment of a quasi-market of the " Health sport in this region. The forms of Labour Division observed reflect a tangible shift that appears to be gradually confining the health and sports associations to the rank of functional operators. They also accelerate the mechanisms of diversifying the associative sports supply within a field long refractory to this type of evolution. All these dynamics allow, more generally, to participate in the analytical debates on the recomposition of relations between the State and the territories.

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