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Module 4: Theories >> Readings and Resources
Section A
Foundations of Health Promotion

  Module 1
  Definitions and Concepts

--Module 2
--Milestones
--Module 3
--Models of Health
--& Health Promotion
--Module 4
--Theories
   ---Learning Outcomes
   ---Reflective Exercise
   ---Content Discussion
   ---Reflective Exercise
   ---Content Discussion
   ---Reflective Exercise
   ---Readings and Resources

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Section B
Health Promotion in Action
--Module 5
--Strategies
--Module 6
--Features
--Module 7
--Values
Section C
Building your Health Promotion Practice
--Module 8
--Current Practice
--Module 9
--Future Considerations
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Readings and Resources

You can find out more about health promotion theories by accessing these online resources.

Telford, L. “Why should health promoters be theoretical?” Ontario Health Promotion Email Bulletin 150.1, March 31, 2000. http://www.ohpe.ca

Promotion Email Bulletin 180.1, October 27, 2000. http://www.ohpe.ca or direct to article at
http://www.ohpe.ca/ebulletin/FullFeature.cfm?ID=180&ROWNUMBER=111
http://www.comminit.com/social-change.html

For those of you who may want more information on health promotion theories, these print resources may be of interest. If they are not available in your local library, consider requesting them through Inter Library Loan.

Boutlier, M., Cleverly, S., and Labonte, R. “Community as a setting for health promotion.” In B.D. Poland, L.W. Green and I. Rootman (Eds.) Settings for Health Promotion: Linking Theory and Practice.Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 250-307, 2000.

Fishbein, M. et al. Factors influencing Behavior and Behavior Change. Final report prepared for NIMH theorists workshop, Washington D.C.

Glanz, K., Rimer, B.K., and Lewis, F.M. (Eds). Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research and Practice (3rd Edition). San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2002.

Milio, N. “Making healthy public policy - developing the science by learning the art: an ecological framework for policy studies.” Health Promotion 2 (3), 263-274, 1987.

Minkler, M., and Wallerstein, N. “Improving health through community organization and community building: a health education perspective.” In M. Minkler (Ed.). Community Organizing and Community Building for Health. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 30-52, 1997.

Nutbeam, D., and Harris, E. Theory in a Nutshell: A Practitioner’s Guide to Commonly Used Theories and Models in Health Promotion. Sydney, Australia: National Centre for Health Promotion, 1998.

Rothman, J., and Tropman, J.E. “Models of community organization and macro practice: their mixing and phasing.” In F.M. Cox et al. (Eds). Strategies of Community Organization (4th Edition). Itasca, Illinois: Peacock, 1987.

Steckler, A., Goodman, R., and Kegler, M.C. “Mobilizing organizations for health enhancement: theories of organizational change.” In K. Glanz, B.K. Rimer and F.M. Lewis (Eds). Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research and Practice (3rd Edition). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 335-360, 2002.

Van Ryn, M., and Heaney, C.A. “What’s the use of theory.” Health Education Quarterly 19 (3), 315-330, 1992.

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