Analizyng the implementation of the Health Promoting University framework in different contexts: a cluster analysis

to analyse how 22 universities in Spain have implemented the HPU framework in different contexts.

firstly, a document analysis was used as a research method to assess the action areas of work to promote HPU framework. Documents were selected from the university's networks and numerically coded.

a Multiple Correspondence Analysis and a Hierarchical Cluster Analysis identified three types of universities based on the implementation of health promotion areas: "Incipient HPU" that is a heterogeneous group that tend to apply some of the HPU principles by addressing acute actions in time; "Premature HPU" englobe those universities that express the need to incorporate a HPU roadmap but does not express it in practice, and "Mature HPU" that are recognized by university authorities.

these results show how universities recognize and implement the HPU framework differently even when they are part of the same network.