Hi Everyone,
Re. Alison's comments on Lise's wonderful article, I just thought I'd 
mention for those unfamiliar with the IDM approach to best practices for 
health promotion, public health and population health, that the IDM has been 
very helpful to me and a number of other people and organizations in 
comprehensive planning and evaluation - that is, helping ensure that 
practice reflects values, theories/beliefs, evidence, and vision and 
analysis of physical, social, political and economic environments 
(organizational and broader). The IDM takes processes as well as outcomes 
into account. The website www.idmbestpractices.ca has a lot of IDM resources 
on it for those interested.

Alison asks about our struggles with values and practice - for me, I think 
it's the lack of time so many people I have worked with face, so that 
reflecting on values and if these values are actually fully integrated into 
practice often doesn't happen due to so many other demands. That being 
said - I have found in the evaluations I have conducted using the IDM as a 
guiding framework that people will take the time to discuss values (and 
other elements of a comprehensive approach) if they are built into the 
evaluation process, and often express how much they enjoyed the opportunity 
to take time out to reflect on the values etc. Another issue of course is 
what happens after the evaluation...

have a great long weekend everyone,
Barbara

Barbara Kahan
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