Learned Lessons in Knowledge Management for Health Disparities

Introduction

Social Innovation increases in importance by stakeholders and users of informed evidence in disparities of health. Four experiences on knowledge management were observed in one developmental region of Colombia in which human and social capital is recognized as a driver of transformation for the country. Nowadays Antioquia supports many of the new projects for the Reform in Health that is holding by the Colombian State. 

Materials and methods

The National School of Public Health is addressing the Antioquia Node of the Colombian Network on Health Policy and Systems Research (academicians and researchers).  The Observatory for the Fundamental Right on Health is led by an official control departament locally  like Personeria de Medellin (decision makers and civil social organization) and a think tank like a group on health sustained by Antioquia Strategical Plan (social agents, mainly). The last one is a recent experience in which actors are moved on the Reform of the sector and is a roundtable programmed for debates on regulation of the new Law. They are using systematization techniques of learned lessons. The learned lessons provide information of a self-organized socially leadership processes that is promoted in a local area with the agreement of stakeholders and actors.

 A qualitative comparative analysis was carried out for the synthesis of the common conditions and characteristics of the lessons learned, for example. This analysis threw theoretical and argument aspects of observed spaces and mainly, its movements toward action in the field of decision.

Results

Social knowledge management is as a basic thinking that promotes building public health policies up using evidence-informed by informed citizenships.

Conclusion

The contribution of lessons learned  are related to the knowledge translation which is on the population behavior and arises from the experiences to become documentary content and knowledge is being renown because it allows others to grow into new knowledge processes.