Improving health responses
Improving the impact of peer work in public health
Here is all our information about improving health responses.
Peer organisations and programs have a unique and vital role in public health responses.
The W3 Framework shows how peer work fits within an overall health response. It can help guide strategic and program planning to maximise the impact of public health responses.
Using the W3 Framework can help peer workers improve their own work. Furthermore, it can help mainstream health organisations and policymakers ensure they provide a supportive environment for peer work.
Essential guide to improving peer responses
Using the W3 Framework can help peer responses adapt and improve their work. Here's how.
The W3 Framework Guide
Peer responses can use the W3 Framework to enhance their monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) practice. It supports peer responses to design their MEL processes to gather meaningful information that can help guide peer responses to ways they can continually improve their work. This can ultimately help improve the overall health response.
We designed this guide to help you understand the W3 Framework and apply it to your peer response. It puts together everything we have learned so far throughout the W3 Project.
The guide has three parts: an overview of the W3 Framework itself, a step-by-step guide to applying it, and a toolkit to help the application process.
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More on improving health responses
Looking for more information related to improving health responses? These posts talk about involving peers in meaningful ways to help:
- Health responses better understand and respond to community needs
- Develop better policies that are based on health and human rights
- Guide research priorities
Research from the PLHIV Peer Navigator Implementation Study shows how peer support can improve quality of life for people living with HIV.
We share how the PozQoL Project developed and validated a 13-item scale to measure changes in the quality of life of people living with HIV.
Stage 2 of the W3 Project trialled the W3 Framework in peer-led PLHIV and PWUD organisations in Victoria, Australia.
In this research seminar, Associate Professor Graham Brown reflects on 20 years of working with and researching peer-led responses.
This project focussed on converting peer insights from peers who use drugs into resources for Australia’s hepatitis C response.
Former BBV Sector Development Program Coordinator Jen Johnson reflects on a series of interviews with peer and community organisation leaders working in the HIV and hepatitis sector about how they were adapting to COVID-19.
Drug user organisations can help influence policy to achieve hepatitis C elimination, but they need a supportive policy environment to do so. Co-authors and peer workers Charles Henderson and Annie Madden share their thoughts on the important messages in this paper.
An impact analysis of the W3 Project reveals that the W3 Framework helps evidence replace a sense of ‘believing’ that peer-led actions work.
Living Positive Victoria's Senior Communication Officer Randelle Anderson shares how adopting the W3 framework for their annual report helped them go beyond highlighting the year's activities.