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Series in Health Promotion

The Series in Health Promotion is a collection of educational monographs originally developed by the Centre for Health Promotion in cooperation with ParticipACTION. ParticipACTION closed their doors in January of 2001 thus ending a long-time and fruitful partnership with the Centre for Health Promotion.

To order from the Series, print the order form available in PDF format below, complete it and send it with your cheque or money order to: Financial and Administrative Assistant, Centre for Health Promotion, 155 College Street, Suite 400, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 3M7. All inquiries should be directed to: centre.healthpromotion@utoronto.ca or ring (416) 978-2182.

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Series Topics

Issues In Health Promotion
Lectures in Health Promotion
Research in Health Promotion
First International Symposium of Health Promotion Effectiveness
Evaluation
T
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Issues In Health Promotion

HP-10-0101
Promoting Better Health in Canada and the USA: A Political Perspective
Roy Cunningham, Civil Service Fellow, Dept. of Health, London, England
$20.00, 1991, 43 pages                                                                                                                      

A review of health promotion policies in Canada and the US. Assessment of how the radical policies espoused in Canada in the mid 1980s have worked out in practice; how health promotion policies are developed; and how the politics of public health operate in North America.

HP-10-0102
Health Promotion & Empowerment: Practice Frameworks
Ronald Labonte, Ph.D., Saskatchewan Population Health & Evaluation Research Unit, Canada
$25.00, 1993, 103 pages        

Discusses how health promotion professionals engage in specific actions that are empowering, by weaving theory with stories. Three general approaches to health are identified: medical, behavioural and socioenvironmental, each containing a template of differing health conceptualizations, program strategies and success criteria. The concept of empowerment is explored through an examination of five strategies

HP-10-0103
The Use of Social Science Theory to Develop Health Promotion Programs
Centre for Health Promotion, University of Toronto, Canada
$25.00, 1993, 119 pages

Support for program planners in their use of behaviour change theories to plan health promotion projects. Theories described include: Stages of Change, Social Learning, Community Organization, Diffusion of Innovations, Behavioural Community Psychology, Social Marketing, and others.

HP-10-0104
Self-Esteem and Health: Should it be a Focus?
Dennis Raphael, Ph.D., C. Psych, University of Toronto, Canada
$20.00, 1993, 35 pages

Examines the relationship between self-esteem and health status and health-related behaviours. Reviews recent health-related research focused upon self-esteem as an indicator of health, a mediator of life stress and a reinforcer for health-related behaviours.

HP-10-0105
Quality of Life Theory and Assessment: What are the Implications for Health Promotion?
Dennis Raphael, Ph.D., Ivan Brown, Ph.D., Rebecca Renwick, Ph.D., Irv Rootman, Ph.D., University of Toronto, Canada
$20.00, 1994, 76 pages

Various approaches to Quality of Life are reviewed. These include quality of life as an outcome variable, as social diagnosis, as a social indicator, plus other applications. Implications of a quality of life focus for health promotion are also examined.

HP-10-0106
Seeing Green: Lessons in Environmental Health Information, Education, and
Participation
Ron Labonte, Ph.D., Saskatchewan Population Health & Evaluation Research Unit, Canada
$20.00, 1995, 46 pages

A review of learnings in the practice of public education and participation in environmental health. Targets environmental health activists wishing to make the link between policy authority and public empowerment more fair and effective for healthy communities.

HP-10-0107
Influences on the Health of Adolescents at School: In Search of the Modifiable
Martin Shain, S.J.D., Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Ontario, Mary Johnston, B. Ed., B.H.Sc., Health Canada
$20.00, 1998, 40 pages

Examines the role that schools play in health promotion initiatives. Addresses several issues including where schools belong in influencing the health of young people and the opportunities and limitations associated with treating schools as primary health promotion sites.

HP-12-0101
National Leadership Roundtable on Employee Health
The Institute for Work & Health, Toronto, Canada
$25.00 , 1998, 60 pages

Contains four background papers on which the National Roundtable on Employee Health discussions were based: Health, Health Care and Disability: Towards New Business Approaches; How the workplace Can Influence Employee Illness and Injury; Pharmacare: The Pros and Cons for Business of Canada's National Drug Proposal; Effective Disability Management and Return to Work Practices. A summary report on the Roundtable discussions, Good Health is Good Business, is included.

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Lectures in Health Promotion

HP-10-0201
Building Healthy Communities
Diana Baxter, Department of Health, City of Toronto, Canada
$15.00, 1993, 11 pages

Explores the underpinnings and key elements of the Healthy City movement. Provides examples of projects that illustrate the main principles. Discusses major challenges and concludes with five suggestions for effective investment in community health promotion.

HP-10-0202
A Holosphere of Healthy and Sustainable Communities
Ron Labonte, Ph.D., Saskatchewan Population Health & Evaluation Research Unit, Canada
$15.00, 1993, 24 pages

Public Health practice is expanding considerably beyond medical and behavioural models of health and disease to encompass physical and social environmental health determinants. A new public health practice is emerging and must integrate within itself the challenge of sustainable development. This article provides a framework for such an integration, by examining six interacting environmental spheres and the key functional roles of local government.

HP-10-0203
Health Promotion: Past, Present and Future
Irv Rootman, Ph.D., University of Toronto, Canada
$15.00, 1992, 16 pages

Discusses the past, present and future of health promotion from a Canadian perspective. Reviews the development of health promotion from the release of A New Perspective on the Health of Canadians in 1974 to the Third International Conference on Health Promotion in Sweden in 1991. Describes some initiatives and issues with predictions about the future. An epilogue, written in July 1999, considers developments since 1992.

HP-10-0204
Conflict in Teams: Problem or Opportunity?
Marilyn Laiken, Professor, Adult Education, OISE, U. of T., Canada
$15.00, 1994, 12 pages

Examines some common causes of conflict in a team and offers a variety of strategies, for both team members and leaders. Strategies include expecting conflict and valuing it as a rich resource for creativity; understanding one's own contribution to the problem; and developing specific skills to interrupt negative attribution cycles.

HP-10-0205
Why Health Promotion?
Irv Rootman, Ph.D., University of Toronto, Canada
$15.00, 1997, 14 pages

Discusses what health promotion is, how it is done, how it developed and how it relates to the determinants of health. Presents arguments as to why health promotion is a good investment and stresses the need to develop appropriate skills to do health promotion well.

HP-10-0206
Evidence on the Effectiveness of Health Promotion: Current Developments and Issues
Irv Rootman, Ph.D., University of Toronto, Canada
$15.00, 1997, 14 pages

Discusses a number of issues associated with defining, assembling, using and sharing evidence on the effectiveness of health promotion.

HP-10-0207
Indicators That Count! -- Measuring Population Health at the Community Level
Trevor Hancock M.B., B.S., MHSc., Ron Labonte, Ph.D. with Richard Edwards, Ph.D. University of Toronto, Canada
$20.00, 2000, 142 pages

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Research in Health Promotion

HP-10-0301
Equity in Action: Supporting the Public in Public Policy
Ron Labonte, Ph.D., Saskatchewan Population Health & Evaluation Research Unit, Rick Edwards, Ph.D., Consultant, Canada
$25.00, 1995, 90 pages

Research conducted in Ontario to better understand how locally-based projects participated in policy decision-making at the local and provincial levels.

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First International Symposium on Health Promotion Effectiveness, 1996

HP-10-0401
Building Healthy Public Policy
(Rick Edwards, Ph.D., Canada)
The Effectiveness of Healthy Public Policy (M. Whitehead, Ph.D., U.K.)
$25.00, 1996, 61 pages

Edwards examines the questions of health promotion effectiveness in a political and professional context and the issue of health promotion as an investment, based on several methods of economic evaluation. Whitehead looks at the factors effecting healthy public policy and how both theory and practice assist in the evaluation process.

HP-10-0402
Creating Healthy Environments
(Bo Haglund, M.D., Sweden)
Creating Supportive Environments (Bruce Small, P. Eng., Canada)
$25.00, 1996, 43 pages

Haglund demonstrates how crucial supportive environments are as a means of promoting health. Environments are not just the visible structures and services surrounding us but have spiritual, social, cultural, economic, political and ideological dimensions as well. Small examines the health promotion vision for healthier environments as was presented in a 1987 report evaluating Canada's achievements since that date.

HP-10-0403
The Effectiveness of Community Action in Health Promotion: A Research Perspective
(Marie Boutilier, Ph.D., Canada)
How Effective is Strengthening Community Action as a Strategy for Health Promotion? (John Raeburn, Ph.D., New Zealand)
$25.00, 1996, 40 pages

Boutilier outlines community health promotion as a "practice" within four "arenas": health and social services, community activism, policy, and research. Raeburn defines "empowering community development" and then presents evidence from a variety of sources to draw some general conclusions about the efficacy of this approach.

HP-10-0404
Communities and the Development of Personal Health Skills Among Youth: Synthesis of Minnesota Experiences in Preventing Alcohol Use and Heart Disease
(John Finnegan, Ph.D., C. Perry, Ph.D., U.S.)
Person-Centred Health Promotion (Harvey Skinner, Ph.D., Kim Bercovitz, Ph.D., Canada)
$25.00, 1996, 46 pages

Finnegan and Perry review and synthesize a program of research aimed at youth health promotion and disease prevention, looking specifically at the short and long term effects on mortality and morbidity. Skinner and Bercovitz review concepts and research related to the development of Personal Skills. Their primary focus is on understanding what motivates health behaviour and the dynamics of change.

HP-10-0405
Reorienting Health Services: From Rhetoric to Reality
(Joy Johnson, Ph.D., R.N., Canada)
$12.50, 1996, 16 pages

Johnson considers the effectiveness of the Reorienting Health Services strategy from both a process and outcome point of view.

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Evaluation

HP-10-0406
A Story/Dialogue Method for Health Promotion Knowledge Development and Evaluation    
(Ron Labonte, Ph.D. and Joan Feather, M.A., Canada)
$25.00, 1996, 30 pages

Labonte and Feather describe a "story/dialogue method" of evaluation that attempts to bridge the chasm between descriptive stories and rigorous explanation.

HP-10-0407
Does Self-Help Help? A Review of the Literature on the Effectiveness of Self-Help Programs
(Brian Hyndman, M. HSc., Canada)
$25.00, 1997, 41 pages

Hyndman provides an overview of the ways in which self-help programs can foster positive changes in the health and well-being of participants.

HP-10-0408          
Health Promotion in Action: A Review of the Effectiveness of Health Promotion Strategies
(Brian Hyndman, M. HSc., Canada)
$25.00, 1998, 85 pages

Hyndman deals with four main topics: (1) Why Health Promotion?;(2) Understanding Health Promotion: Key Approaches to Knowledge Development and Evaluation; (3) Health Promotion in Action: The "Implementation" of the Ottawa Charter (1986 -); (4) Whither Health Promotion? Key Issues for Health Promotion Researchers and Practitioners.

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Last Updated: 26-Oct-2007

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