Friends: [usual apologies to those on both these lists]

At the MHSc Program in Health Promotion we have adopted for use in our
courses two books by Jennie Naidoo and Jane Wills.  The first, Health
Promotion: Foundations for Practice (1994) is being used in our flagship
course Health Promotion.  The wonderful aspect of the book is that it takes
a "critical" approach towards the issues involved in health promotion.  For
example, one sub-section is headed: "Whose needs count?" The text is
basically encyclopedic in its coverage of issues related to HP.

More recently they have come out with Practising Health Promotion; Dilemmas
and Challenges (1998).  This text is being in our Health Promotion
Strategies course. The text addresses issues related to poverty, accidents,
heart disease, and mental health promotion, among others. Again it takes a
critical perspective towards these issues.

These texts will be of very special interest to some of our US colleagues
who may not have been exposed to WHO concepts of health and health promotion.

Below is further information about these books and how to obtain them.

Health Promotion: Foundations for Practice
        by Jennie Naidoo, Senior Lecturer, Health Promotion
        University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
        and Jane Willis
        Senior Lecturer, Health Promotion
        South Bank University, London, UK

     This textbook provides students with a theoretical and critical
     framework to identify and evaluate their vital role as health
     promoters.  It is innovatively designed to encourage critical
     evaluation, reflection, and debate.

     Section One: The Theory of Health Promotion examines what we mean by
     the concepts of health, health education and health promotion, and how
     this influences methods and approaches.

     Section Two: Dilemmas in Practice addresses the ethical and political
     issues which influence health promotion and evaluates strategies of
     community development and behaviour change.

     Section Three: Working for Health Promotion looks at how it is
     implemented in practice through needs assessment, planning, use of the
     media, and crucially, evaluation, reflecting the opportunities for
     health promotion in a wide variety of practice settings.


     Practising Health Promotion: Dilemmas and Challenges
     by Jennie Naidoo and Jane Willis

     Adopting the same readable and engaging style of their previous book,
     this text looks at the key challenges of health promotion practice and
     the problems practitioners face in translating theory and research
     into their practice.  The text uses an innovative reflective approach
     to encourage readers to use their own practice as a way of exploring
     health promotion theory and research.  The book also includes
     contributions from practitioners exploring key areas in practice
     (Accidents, CHD, mental Health, Sexual Health, Cancer) illustrating
     how theory and research can inform the development of evidence-based
     practice.

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   Canalising a river
   Grafting a fruit tree
   Educating a person
   Transforming a state
   These are instances of fruitful criticism
   And at the same time instances of art.
       -Bertolt Brecht
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Dennis Raphael, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Associate Director,
Masters of Health Science Program in Health Promotion
Department of Public Health Sciences
Graduate Department of Community Health
University of Toronto
McMurrich Building, Room 101
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M5S 1A8
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