Module 1
  Definitions and Concepts

Readings and Resources

You can find out more about key milestones in the field of health promotion at these online resources.

Hyndman, B. “The evolution of health promotion, 1920-1986”. Excerpt from Health Promotion in Action: A Review of the Effectiveness of Health Promotion Strategies. Toronto: Centre for Health Promotion/ParticipACTION, 1998, pp. 4-12. (Available for order at http://www.utoronto.ca/chp/ParticipACTION.htm#evaluation)

Lalonde, M. A New Perspective on the Health of Canadians. Ottawa: Health and Welfare Canada, 1974. http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hcs-sss/alt_formats/hpb-dgps/pdf/pubs/1974-lalonde/lalonde_e.pdf

World Health Organization. The Jakarta Declaration on Leading Health Promotion into the 21st Century. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1997. http://www.who.int/hpr/NPH/docs/jakarta_declaration_en.pdf

For those of you who may want more information on health promotion milestones, these additional printed materials may be of interest. If they are not available at your local library, you could consider requesting them through Inter Library Loan.

Berkman, L.F., and Syme, S.L. “Social networks, host resistance and mortality: a nine-year follow-up study fo Alameida county residents.” American Journal of Epidemiology 109, 186-204, 1979.

Black, D., Morris, J.N., Smith, C., and Townsend, P. The Black Report. London: DHSS, 1980.

Green, L.W. Community Health (4th Edition). Boston: Times-Mirror/Moseby College Publishing, 1990.

Labonte, R., and Penfold, S. “Canadian perspectives in health promotion: a critique.” Health Education 19 (3-4), 4-9.

Pederson, A., O’Neill, M., and Rootman, I. (Eds.) Health Promotion in Canada: Provincial, National and International Perspectives. Toronto: W.B. Saunders, 1994.

Sigerist, H.E. The University at the Crossroads. New York: Henry Schuman, 1946.

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