What will it take to make people care about health promotion? Wellness
programs pay off in corporations, yet corporations aren't willing to foot
the bill? How can we push this debate forward?

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Hyndman [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 1:15 PM
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Subject: Re: discussion?


> On the plus side, the infant mortality rate in Canada decreased by 14%
> from 1991 to 1997. Which paradigm (pop health or health promotion) can
> claim credit for that?

Before people start mistaking me for Al Gore, I'll cease and desist with the
statistics. I do not think that health promotion or population health can be
held responsible for any of  the macro-level policy trends mentioned noted
by Dennis and myself --- neither discipline is sufficiently strong,
respected or powerful to take the blame/credit. If you surveyed a
representative sample of 1,000 Canadians, how many of them would be able to
define, or state the difference between, health promotion or population
health? How many would care?

And therein lies the problem.

>
> Brian Hyndman
> The Health Communication Unit
> at the Centre for Health Promotion
> University of Toronto
> 100 College Street, Rm 215
> Toronto, ON  M5G 1L5
> Tel: 416-978-0586
> Fax: 416-971-2443
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Brian Hyndman
The Health Communication Unit
at the Centre for Health Promotion
University of Toronto
100 College Street, Rm 215
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Tel: 416-978-0586
Fax: 416-971-2443
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