Building the backbone for organisational research in public health systems: development of measures of organisational capacity for chronic disease prevention

BACKGROUND: : Research to investigate levels of organisational capacity in public health systems to reduce the burden of chronic disease is challenged by the need for an integrative conceptual model and valid quantitative organisational level measures. OBJECTIVE: To develop measures of organisational capacity for chronic disease prevention/healthy lifestyle promotion (CDP/HLP), its determinants, and its outcomes, based on a new integrative …