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Scaling up health innov ations

Scaling up health innovations: A systems persp ective on the scalability of novel psychological interventions for re fugees

It is often difficult to successfully introduc e short and structured psychological programmes, such as Problem Mana gement Plus, into regular health and support services for refugees. A niek Woodward’s study focused on several 'scalable' psychological p rogrammes for Syrian refugees developed by the World Health Organizat ion and various contexts. Woodward’s study has increased our unders tanding of how novel brief psychological programmes for Syrian refuge es can be made part of regular health and support services. It identi fied important factors, people, and processes that play a role in mak ing this possible.

Instead of only listing barriers and facilit ators - which is common in research on scaling up health intervention s -this study explored feasible ways for institutional anchoring of n ew psychological interventions for Syrian refugees into existing serv ices across different settings. The developed integration scenarios p resent stories of how the scaling up of these interventions could wor k in specific countries. This provides deeper insight into how such i nterventions can be implemented in real-world settings (i.e. outside of research projects).

The knowledge generated by this research is valuable for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers who are involved in planning, delivering, or evaluating mental health interv entions for refugees.

More information on the thesis

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Scaling up health innovations: A systems pers pective on the scalability of novel psychological interventions for r efugees

It is often difficult to successfully introduce short and structured psychological programmes, such as Problem Manag ement Plus, into regular health and support services for refugees. An iek Woodward’s study focused on several 'scalable' psychological pr ogrammes for Syrian refugees developed by the World Health Organizati on and various contexts. Woodward’s study has increased our underst anding of how novel brief psychological programmes for Syrian refugee s can be made part of regular health and support services. It identif ied important factors, people, and processes that play a role in maki ng this possible. Instead of only listing barriers and facilitators - which is common in research on scaling up health interventions -this study explored feasible ways for institutional anchoring of new psyc hological interventions for Syrian refugees into existing services ac ross different settings. The developed integration scenarios present stories of how the scaling up of these interventions could work in sp ecific countries. This provides deeper insight into how such interven tions can be implemented in real-world settings (i.e. outside of rese arch projects). The knowledge generated by this research is valuable for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers who are involved in planning, delivering, or evaluating mental health interventions for r efugees. More information on the thesis Scaling up health inn ovations END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR