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> From: Elizabeth Rajkumar <[log in to unmask]>

> All of which leads us back to Blake's observation that it is really
health promotion's
> IDEOLOGICAL STANCE which is at the source of  so much of the criticism --
i.e.,  the
> continued opposition is not so much about theory or the lack of it,
evaluation or the
> lack of it, evidence or the lack of it, vagueness or the lack of it, but
about fear of
> health promotion's implicit social justice agenda, and resistance to the
notion that
> our society's power relations need to be critically reexamined.

Thank you for such a informative posting Elizabeth,

You mention "health promotion's implicit social justice agenda"  can you
give me concrete examples of this agenda?

I have always been interested in group's values and beliefs and have worked
with many groups on these, often as things went on there were real
questions about what the group's values and beliefs meant.  Then I had a
chance to work with a group that not only developed their values and
beliefs but went on to specify what it would mean in action.  So, we
believe this, therefore we will do this.

So if health promotion has an implicit social justice agenda how does it
affect how it operates?

Thanks,

S

Sherrie Tingley
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