Thanks for the information Alison!   And thanks to whoever at Health Canada
found the paper and put it online.  I still wish that we had some idea of
what Health Canada thinks on the issues raised.



Dr. Mike Nelson [log in to unmask]
NHN Consulting Group, Lantzville, BC
(250) 390-1241

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> From: Stirling, Alison <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: M. Nelson's paper "HP & New Info. Technologies"
> Date: Tuesday, October 14, 1997 10:05 AM
>
> Hello,
>
> Last Friday Mike Nelson described a paper that he wrote for Health
> Canada in early 1996 called "Health Promotion and New Information
> Technologies".
> He said:
> >More than a year and a half ago I wrote a paper under contract for
> Health
> Canada, that, among other things, called for a national consultation on
> the
> role of new information technology in relation to health promotion and
> public health.  The issue of the impact of centralizing information
> dissemination on the voluntary sector was also raised.  ... the point is
> we need to have a full discussion of
> the new information technology and its implications for public health
> and
> health promotion.  It can be wonderful or it can be a curse, it depends
> on
> how we put it to work
>
> This same paper was described by Michel O'Neill in this list in February
> in this year with an address for getting copies.
>
> Madeline Boscoe asked for an email copy of the paper - but that is not
> necessary. This fascinating paper is available on-line at Health
> Canada's web-site called Health Promotion On-Line in the HP Programs
> Development Resources section.  For a direct access to the listing of
> the documents in this area, go to
> http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/healthpromotiondevelopment/resources.htm
> You will see a direct link to the document plus:
>         Health Promotion and New Information Technologies... This paper
> deals with new and rapidly changing technologies and their potential
> impact on a relatively new and evolving field. The aim is to provide
> advice that may assist Health Canada and other key players in the field
> of health promotion to think through and strategically plan their
> involvement with the new technologies. Here the advice has taken the
> form of recommendations that for the most part, call on the health
> promotion community to consult and plan together to ensure that the
> positive potential of the new technologies to help promote health is
> realized, and to minimize the possible negative effects.
>
> Mike was concerned that the paper seemed to be lost at Health Canada; an
> unfortunate situation when it is actually available on Health Canada's
> web site along with a number of other useful documents, such as
> "Population Health Promotion: An Integrated Model of Population Health
> and Health Promotion".  I hope that the significant points made in
> Mike's paper get widely discussed and shared, both within the federal
> government and more importantly, in international venues like this on
> health promotion.
>
> Alison
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> Alison Stirling, health promotion consultant
> Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse
> 1(800) 263-2846 ext 226 OR (416) 408-2121 ext 226
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