National/Regional Health Promoting Hospitals Network coordinators : report on the fifth workshop, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom 21 April 1999

Abstract

The Workshop took place in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Health Promoting Hospitals. The meeting was divided into two parts. The first part was devoted to a presentation of progress reports on the development of the national/regional Health Promoting Hospitals networks. Each coordinator briefly presented the development of the network, focusing also on successes and failures. The second purpose of the Workshop was to initiate a discussion on internationally agreed indicators for the evaluation of Health Promoting Hospitals programmes and projects. A keynote presentation on international indicators for Health Promoting Hospitals was given. The succeeding discussion demonstrated that more time is necessary to find agreement on indicators for Health Promoting Hospitals. The meeting concluded with suggestions concerning the further working structure of the workshops of network coordinators