RE: Doctoral Programs in "Health Promotion"

There are a very large number of programs in the USA that contain the term
"Health Promotion"  Careful look at their programs reveal them to be heavily
lifestyle oriented, and even bio-medical, with virtually no emphasis on
issues of community development, public policy or other aspects of the Ottawa
Charter.  Public health programs such as Berkeley and Harvard could
however, be seen as involving modern aspects of 'health promotion.' There are
a large number of more up to date programs in the UK and Western Europe,
particular programs in Scandinavia, one of which [Bergen] is taught in
English, but these may be Masters levels only.

You may wish to ask list-serve members of the HP list-serve that runs out of
Sweden;  a CC is being sent to them re: your inquiry.


On Fri, 13 Feb 1998 17:26:47 -0500 Cynthia Smith wrote:

> From: Cynthia Smith <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 17:26:47 -0500
> Subject: PhD programs -Reply
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> Is this all university [health promotion] education programs? Surely it
can't be all hp programs?

> Cynthia


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Dennis Raphael, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Acting Director,
Masters of Health Science Program in Health Promotion
Department of Public Health Sciences
Graduate Department of Community Health
University of Toronto
McMurrich Building, Room 101
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M5S 1A8