Welphi was used to integrate the
Euro-Healthy (Shaping EUROpean policies to promote HEALTH equitY) project, a
three-year Horizon 2020 research project launched in January 2015 which aimed
to advance knowledge of policies that have the highest potential to enhance
health and health equity across European regions.
The project envisioned the development of tools
– based on a Population Health Index (PHI) – to evaluate and monitor overall
health as well as interactions between health and multiple dimensions at
different geographical levels. The PHI was then used to foresee and discuss the
impact of multi-level policies and combinations of policies in population
health (PH) and health equity across European regions, thus providing a basis
for policy dialogue.
Euro-Healthy brought together 15
multidisciplinary institutions from 12 European countries assuring a
multi-sectoral approach required to employ cross-cutting determinants of
population health and it was developed through eight research work
packages (WP).
Welphi integrated the work developed in WP6 –
Decision support for multicriteria modeling of the population health index and
evaluation, foresight and selection of policies – proving to be a major asset in
the approach taken towards the research work, answering to the project’s specific needs of developing inclusive non-face-to-face participatory processes, to be carried out with both health experts and stakeholders. Welphi was mainly used for the activities of:
1| Indentification of indicators;
2| Construction of the Indicators’ Value Functions;
3| Weighting the Indicators.
To ensure that the Euro-Healthy PHI
considered the multiple dimensions that PH entails and was informed by evidence,
a specific socio-technical design was built combining concepts of multicriteria
value measurement with participatory processes through the development of
several modified Web-Delphi processes technically sound in MACBETH (MACBETH -
Bana e Costa, C.A., De Corte, J.M., Vansnick, J.C. (2012), “MACBETH”,
International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making, 11, 2,
359-387), resorting to Welphi.
The Web-Delphi processes conducted through Welphi,
making use of its friendly and attractive interface, proved to be in fact an
inclusive and effective way of collecting information from a high number of
geographically dispersed experts and stakeholders aiding the building of the
PHI with their insights thus allowing for the collection of first-hand
knowledge and experience regarding the development and application of methods
and tools for the health evaluation context.
Welphi’s processes results were then used to
inform and assist a smaller and strategic group of participants to solve the
questions in hand, as an effective way of including the views of an enlarged
number of participants in the decision making process.
As a result of all the work developed in the
Euro-Healthy’s scope the Euro-healthy Web-GIS (https://healthyregionseurope.uc.pt)
now provides a wide range of robust information to analyse PH and health
inequities across European regions.
Adapted from http://www.euro-healthy.eu/, where you
can find more about the Euro-Healthy project. Test Welphi for yourself at http://www.welphi.com/.
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