The effects of public health policies on health inequalities in European welfare states

Abstract

structural backbone of the HPCB literature visible. To further understand the directions that HPCB has evolved into, the k-core and communities of the citation network were detected. As a result, six major cliques were identified in the literature. The main path analysis identified the intellectual source of HPCB to the publication Diffusion of Innovations by Rogers (1962). To some extent all three dimensions of HPCB, as identified by Hawe, Noort, King, and Jordens (1997), can be traced to this early work. The strongest path of more recent applications of HPCB focused on building global capacity in health promotion. However, the majority of the more recent texts highlighted in the analyses were associated with community capacity-building. Other distinctive traits detected were organizational development , workforce development, and health promoting schools. These results suggest that HPCB, as first conceptualized by Hawe and colleagues, has on the one hand given birth to a global-level core competencies approach, while on the other hand it has mostly focused on community capacity-building. As a consequence , other scenarios have received considerably less attention. Key messages: Inheriting from the diffusion of innovations theory, recent health promotion capacity-building literature has mostly focused on community capacity-building. Other distinctive traits in the literature include global-level health promotion capacity-building, organizational development , health promoting schools and workforce development.