Please find below a forwarded email from a colleague:

     Dear Blake Poland and colleagues,

     I am following with great interest the different discussions on the WHO
     resolution on HP via INET. In reply to Blake Polands e-mail below I thought
     it would be useful to let you know that the Executive Board of the World
     Health Organization got - before they passed the resolution on Health
     Promotion - the "Health Promotion Glossary" (1998) which was produced by
     the Division on Health Promotion, Education and Communication (HPR),
     directed by Ilona Kickbusch at WHO/Geneva. Don Nutbeam (Sydney, Australia)
     was the main author and many colleagues within and outside WHO contributed
     to it.

     Have a very nice day
     Yours,

     Ursel Broesskamp-Stone

     P.S.: to get a copy of the glossary (English only as of now) pl. download
     it from the WHO website (www.who.ch/hpr) or write to [log in to unmask]

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     Ursel Broesskamp-Stone, MPH
     Division of Health Promotion, Education and Communications (HPR)
     Health Education and Promotion Unit (HEP)
     World Health Organisation
     20, Avenue Appia
     CH - 2111 Geneva 27
     Switzerland
     Tel: +41 22 791- 3299
     Fax: +41 22 791- 4186
     E-mail: [log in to unmask]

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Subject: Re: WHO Resolution
Author:  Blake Poland <[log in to unmask]> at inet
Date:    30.1.98 11,35


Merci Michel for having circulated this resolution.

While I don't share Donald's (narrow) vision of health promotion (health
education?), I do agree that the resolution remains altogether too vague
unless it at least attempts to indicate what is meant by "empowerment",
"community capacity", "partnership", a settings approach to health
promotion, and other such key terms (including health itself). Without this,
the resolution becomes, I think, altogether too maleable and platitudinous
potentially legitimating rhetoric for a host of practices which we might
well not support. I would also have liked to see a stronger focus on social
justice and on economic disparities (gap b/n rich and poor) as key
determinants of health.

Blake Poland
Public Health Sciences
University of Toronto