Interesting that you would raise this issue now, as I am reading Best
Start's excellent resource ""Reducing the Impact: working with pregnant
women who live in difficult life situations".  What I especially appreciate
about your publication is that it focuses on socio-economic status as a
determinant of health during pregnancy and provides feedback from pregnant
women about what is helpful or not helpful in dealing with behavoural issues
related to prenatal health.

Good luck with your project,

Randi


----- Original Message -----
From: "Wendy Burgoyne" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 1:07 PM
Subject: resistant populations - need your input


> Best Start is in the preliminary stages of developing a new "How to"
> resource related to health promotion in populations that are resistant
> to traditional maternal newborn health messages. We are looking for your
> input. The proposed new resource would be part of Best Start's series of
> "how to" resources that include:
> How to Build Partnerships with Physicians
> How to Build Partnerships with Workplaces
> How to Build Partnerships with Youth
> How to Work with Coalitions
>
> These text of these existing resources can be viewed at:
> http://www.beststart.org/resources/other_res.html
>
> The series focuses on brief tips, ideas and stories related to the topic
> area and maternal newborn health promotion. The resources are used to
> support Best Start consultations and training sessions. They are in
> short newsletter formats, and are not intended to take the place of more
> in-depth resources that look at the topic in a broader context (ie those
> that are looking at health promotion in general rather than the specific
> maternal newborn applications).
>
> For now, the new resource has been loosely named "How to Work with
> Resistant Populations". We want to include ideas, tips and information.
> There would be brief "stories", examples of Ontario interventions in
> populations that are resistant to specific maternal newborn health
> messages. A few examples could include:
> -promoting smoke-free pregnancies in the tobacco belt
> -promoting smoke-free pregnancies in communities where smoking is an
> expectation at social events
> -promoting alcohol-free pregnancies in the north where weekend bingeing
> is a social norm
> -promoting breastfeeding where formula feeding is a social norm
>
> If you have any suggestions (research, existing resources, websites,
> stories, important information, people to contact etc) I would be very
> happy to hear from you.
>
> Wendy
>
>
> --
>
> Wendy Burgoyne
> Health Promotion Consultant
> Best Start: Ontario's Maternal, Newborn
> and Early Child Development Resource Centre
> Box 698, 54 Broadway Ave
> Wawa, ON, POS IKO
> Tel: 1-705-856-2997
> or 1-800-397-9567 (press 3)
> Fax: 1-705-856-1320
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