Thank you Peter for your message. Unfortunately, it did not reach the
CLICK4HP list, as it had an attachment. The listserv blocks attachments to
prevent transmission of viruses, and to assist many subscribers who pay by
the minute for downloading, and would have difficulty (and costs) in
downloading unexpected attachments. Many email systems also block unexpected
attachments as a virus-prevention measure.

I am copying your message to the list, and encourage interested subscribers
to contact you directly for a copy of your 4 page PDF article.  Here is the
abstract from that brief paper "Towards a more unified definition of health
promotion" in the Health Promotion Journal of Australia 2003;14:82-5:

Issues addressed: Health promotion continues to be constrained by the lack
of a consistent, clear and useable definition.
Discussion: The authors reviewed definitions of health promotion from the
international literature and crossreferenced
them with the national health promotion competencies and current health
promotion practice. The key elements of the most widely used concepts of
health promotion have been incorporated into a single definition. A case
study has been used to illustrate its practical nature.


If there is a website that people could go to to access the Health Promotion
Journal of Australia, please let us know!  Thanks again for your thoughtful
message and your contributions to this important discussion.

Alison Stirling
co-facilitator, CLICK4HP health promotion listserv
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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Howat [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: September 26, 2004 10:20 PM

Sorry  to  read that health promotion is 'dead' in Canada.  It is  certainly
alive  and  flourishing in Australia,  but  still with many challenges to
continue its   development! ( We are sure it  is really  far  from dead in
Canada too!)

Congratulations Eric on your realistic assessment about health promotion.

While debate about  what  constitutes health promotion can be  useful  and
help  us all examine ways  to  improve it, taking a dogmatic  either  /  or
stance  is  unhelpful.

Rather  we  should  be  considering health promotion as a continuum where a
wide  range of approaches  are relevant. In countries where they have
allowed a dichotomous perspective to develop they have found themselves
diminished and often lacking in the skill base to deal with pandemics such
as obesity.

As the recent IUHPE international conference (which Canada is hosting in
2007) indicated there are  many terrific health promotion activities being
conducted throughout the world.  Let us be careful that we do not undermine
our own achievements.   There are enough industry and other groups who are
already trying to do this with out us imploding our own area.

We have attached a brief  paper about defining health promotion we  prepared
to create debate  and  hopefully better  agreement (and tolerance) about
what constitutes health promotion.

best wishes
Peter Howat  and Bruce Maycock

WA Centre for Health Promotion Research
School of Public Health
Curtin University
GPO Box U1987
Perth, W Australia 6845
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