Exploring drivers and challenges in implementation of health promotion in community mental health services: a qualitative multi-site case study using Normalization Process Theory

Table 1 Overview of the specific activities under each health promotion work package in selected providers of community mental health services, 2012

		Municipal provider Lakeside	Municipal provider Countryside^a	Regional provider Beachfront	Regional provider Hilltop
Health promotion work package	Physical exercise	• Individual training programmes; • Groups for running/walking • Exercise buddies	• Daily/weekly walking tours	• Daily exercise • Groups for running/walking • Joint exercise day	• Spinning facilities • Outdoors exercise facilities
	Healthy eating	• Healthy meals/recipes	• Communal breakfast • Support shopping/meal preparation • Courses on healthy food	• Support shopping/meal preparation	• Courses on healthy food
	Smoking reduction	• Smoking cessation courses		• Dedicated smoking areas	• Dedicated smoking areas

^aThe provider did not have a health promotion work package on smoking reduction and suggested this was because of general resource constraints. However, this does not mean that the provider did not work with smoking reduction more generally; this is because the implementation of SLIPS coincided with the introduction of new anti-smoking legislation in public services

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