The book is available from the International Union for Health Promotion
Headquarters and can be ordered at this address against payment of 100 FF
(15 US$) for handling and postage.

Marie-Claude Lamarre
Executive Director/Directeur Executif/Directora Ejecutiva
IUHPE/UIPES
2 rue Auguste Comte, 92170 Vanves
Tel : 33 1 46 45 00 59 ; Fax : 33 1 46 45 00 45
www.iuhpe.org
----- Original Message -----
From: Martin Spigelman <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 12:55 AM
Subject: Re: Cost-effective Evidence for Public Health Strategies


> Thanks Sylvia.  I will take a look.
>
> Martin
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robinson, Sylvia" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 3:41 PM
> Subject: Re: Cost-effective Evidence for Public Health Strategies
>
>
> > I am wondering if you might find the International Union for Health
> > Promotion and Education's publication "The Evidence of Health Promotion
> > Effectiveness: Shaping Public Health in a New Europe" useful. I ordered
it
> > via their website and noticed in the Evidence Book detailed reference
> lists
> > by chapter. One of the chapters was on health promotion in schools, and
> > another on out-of-school youth.
> > Regards,
> >
> > Sylvia Robinson
> > Manager
> > Diabetes Registry and Outcome Measurement
> > Capital Health Region
> > #430-1900 Richmond Avenue
> > Victoria, BC V8R 4R2
> > Voice: (250) 519-7071
> > Fax: (250) 519-7079
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tommpastore,Marian [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: August 22, 2001 3:31 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Cost-effective Evidence for Public Health Strategies
> >
> >
> > Hello!
> > It is great to see courses in economic evaluation becoming more common,
> > however, I need some information now to link public health strategies to
> > positive outcomes that can save the region money.
> > I have been asked by our health region to do a search for cost-effective
> > evidence for public health preventive strategies to gain more financial
> > support for primary prevention and health promotion.  Specifically for
> > health promotion projects that have been less commonly seen as part of
the
> > role of public health, e.g. early childhood and school support programs
> for
> > high risk families. Isolation and poverty are some of the key issues
here.
> >  I am aware of the following: CPRN and the prevention dividend project
and
> > growing healthy kids web sites and the publication Investing in Our
> Children
> > and the various home visitation programs such as Hawaii Healthy Start,
> Olds
> > and colleagues and the Ontario Better Beginnings, Better Futures
> > Communities... all great.
> > Does anyone know of other recent cost effectiveness evidence for PH
> > strategies, for example evaluations of advocacy by public health nurses,
> > community development, social support or innovative parenting programs.
> >
> > Marian Tomm Pastore
> > Health Planning Coordinator
> > Simon Fraser Health Region
> > #300 - 4946 Canada Way
> > Burnaby, BC V5G 4H7
> > Phone: 604-918-7607
> > Fax: 604-918-7630
> > Email: [log in to unmask]
>