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Pfaff, Holger ORCID: 0000-0001-9154-6575 and Ohlmeier, Silke (2017). Research Networks in Public Health: Requirements for Sustainability and Effectiveness - a Sociological Perspective. Gesundheitswesen, 79 (11). S. 966 - 975. STUTTGART: GEORG THIEME VERLAG KG. ISSN 1439-4421

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Abstract

The Public Health White Paper draws up a vision of public health as a living, decentralized network that can help improve the health of the population in a sustained fashion. However, the central question remains open as to which prerequisites public health networks should fulfill in order to be effective in the long term. The aim of this paper is to provide a sociological view of the issue and offer some discussion ideas. Parsons' structural functionalism leads to the thesis that science networks in public health require structures that ensure that the 4 basic functions of viable social networks - (1) adaptation, (2) goal attainment, (3) integration and (4) latent pattern maintenance - are fulfilled. On this theoretical basis, suggestions are made to establish functional formal structures in public health networks.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Pfaff, Holger UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-9154-6575 UNSPECIFIED Ohlmeier, Silke UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-211874
DOI:	10.1055/s-0043-118532
Journal or Publication Title:	Gesundheitswesen
Volume:	79
Number:	11
Page Range:	S. 966 - 975
Date:	2017
Publisher:	GEORG THIEME VERLAG KG
Place of Publication:	STUTTGART
ISSN:	1439-4421
Language:	German
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Public, Environmental & Occupational Health Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/21187