This week in the Ontario Health Promotion Email Bulletin, there is a
summary of a comprehensive literature review on the links between HP
capacity building and positive outcomes. The author, Tina Sahay, who
undertook the review, notes that "No literature was found that
deliberately studied and/or documented the link between health promotion
capacity and health outcomes. Two projects, however, indicate a causal
relationship between capacity building and health outcomes".  Portions are
copied below to entice you to find out more in the article!


excerpts of OHPE Bulletin 406.1,
Establishing a Link Between Health Promotion Capacity Building and Health
Outcomes
--by Tina Sahay, director, and Chris Glover, research consultant, Health
Promotion Consulting Group

see the OHPE bulletin #406.1 at
http://ohpe.ca/ebulletin/ViewFeatures.cfm?ISSUE_ID=406&ROWNUMBER=1

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I Introduction

In April of 2004, the Ontario Health Promotion Resource System (OHPRS)
issued a request for proposals to review the literature on the link
between health promotion capacity building and positive health outcomes.
The purpose of the review was to document the relationship between efforts
to build health promotion capacity, enhanced quality of health promotion
programs and services, and positive health outcomes.
This article summarizes the findings of the literature review and offers
recommendations to guide future work in making the link between health
promotion capacity and health outcomes. For the purposes of this article,
capacity building is conceptualized as involving work with individuals,
organizations and communities concerning five key components:
* organizational development,
* workforce development,
* resource allocation,
* partnerships, and
* leadership.

- see the rest of this summary article at
http://ohpe.ca/ebulletin/ViewFeatures.cfm?ISSUE_ID=406&ROWNUMBER=1
for the Resources linked to the article, see:
http://ohpe.ca/ebulletin/ViewResources.cfm?ISSUE_ID=406&startrow=1

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