Dear Click 4ers:

Yesterday Glen Brown wrote:

"I think Jacquie's note that people are their own agents is a crucial one.
BUT that should prompt us to acknowledge their role (and our own) as agents
for political change. Shouldn't our programming (including our health
promotion programming) make that front and centre? Why do so many 'health
promotion' materials, intended to educate the communities we work with, not
even mention that poverty (and pollution, and unhealthy working
conditions..) are the primary determinants of health? If it's supposed to be
a secret, it's not a very well kept one."



In 1984, Ilze Kalnins and I had a paper published which speaks to many of
these points, with reference to children. The citation is:

Love, R and Kalnins, I. Issues in Health Education: Nutrition Education for
Children. Social Science and Medicine. Vol 18 (3), 199-204, 1984

We speak to "individualist" versus "structuralist" approaches and make
recommendations for combining the different views in policy and practice.

Rhonda Love

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