Hello all,

Thank you all so much for your assistance!  What a resource this space is!

I will be presenting on the issue of Homelessness, I feel this model really
is needed as communities attempt to deal with the problem they are facing.

I feel very strongly that we have to be gazing at issues of income and
access and not layering on programs to help a few people.

S

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From:   Brian Hyndman[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]

I liked your analogy very much, but feel the need to propose a revision:

The model of health promotion practice I support would also focus on
advocacy
efforts "to stop the dumping of toxic chemicals into the stream in the
first
place." One of my quibbles about the population health paradigm -- the one
that
has gained some recognition in Canada, at least -- is the tendency of its
proponents to appropriate key principles and concepts that are rooted in
health
promotion without giving proper credit to their source of origin. Health
promoters recognized the importance of addressing the social, economic and
environmental causes of illness long before the determinants of health were
suddenly "rediscovered" by Fraser Mustard and Co.

Brian Hyndman.


>
> In the Health Promotion Model, we work with each of the communities to
> reduce their need to drink out of the stream. With some communities, that
> might require a well. With others, education about the dangers of stream
> drinking. With others, bottled water.
>
> In the Population Health Model, we figure out how to stop the dumping of
> toxic chemicals into the stream in the first place.
>
> Oh, yeah, and then there's government policy: close the hospital, cut
back
> on health promotion, reduce environmental protections and call it health
> reform.
>
> Glen Brown

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