Journal on Policy and Complex Systems
3 . Opportunities to develop collaborations favor increased knowledge about sectors .
The executive council office encourages early calls to the Ministry of Health from sectorial ministries . These reinforcing and developing habits of consulting with the Ministry of Health encourage the flow of information early on and favor upstream interventions by and collaboration with public health actors when possible ( e . g . asking for comments on early versions of a project rather than waiting for the executive council to call for a consultation with the health sector ). Similarly , ministries might call each other to receive input . Such interactions are affecting the Ministry of Health . Altogether , sectors are more knowledgeable of one another . HiAP must be run as a learning process .
Recursive relative weights . As of 2012 , both loops were effective in HiAP . However , the Ministry of Health seems to place increasing emphasis on HiAP as a producer rather than as a product receiver : HiAP related tool ( HIA ) was presented for upcoming developments . A weight on means was finally made possible in the specific context of a 10-yearold experience : health actors acquired more maturity over the years and more knowledge of other fields and how other sectors are performing through repetitive concertations , or common bilateral or multisectorial actions . In real life , recursivity is about producing for the benefit of others , and letting oneself be influenced by fellow ministries in the case of HiAP . For practitioners , it might mean mutual learning .
In terms of practical implications , we suggest that managers consider HiAP as a learning process — for instance , one like what we observed in our case study , which included scientific feedback ( e . g . from the scientific community ), provision of coaching / training ( e . g . training sessions in HIA ), and leading by example as a means of learning ( e . g . intensity of politico-administrative involvement for HIA ). Indicators , such as the number of activities for bidirectional learning and the existence of explicit support to transfer knowledge across sectors , could help to track this specificity of HiAP .
The Hologrammatic Principle : HiAP as a Part and a Whole
Hologrammatic subprinciples . In general terms , the hologrammatic principle refers to systems that can be found similarly functioning on different scales integrating outside logic ( whole in parts ) and where systems influence and transpose some of their inner features or logic to others ( parts in a whole ) in a persistent perspective . For HiAP , the subprinciple “ parts in whole ” is represented by a preoccupation from a traditional sectorial topic that is transferred into the general administration ( e . g . the good health of the population was supported by article 54 and it was also inspiring for an article within the law on poverty ). The subprinciple “ whole in parts ” is represented by a sectorial topic , here public health , being influenced by the usual practices of the public administration ( e . g . the economic conse-
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