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From:          Self <Single-user mode>
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Subject:       Re: Further to 'Politics of HP' and prenatal nutrition
Date:          Thu, 9 Jul 1998 16:11:57


> > They are very strange assumptions - based on tradition and emotion
> > mostly (few people are prepared to accept starving chiildren - at
> > least those living near us).  A coherent health policy could not
> > sustain this illogic - either people are important or they are not!
>
>
> Right, but them as an anti-poverty activist that sees again another cut in
> provincial welfare rates this month with the explanation that this money
> will be given to more programs including child feeding programs, I can not
> help but wonder if people aren't part of the solution then they are part of
> the problem.
>
> When it seems the whole discipline is ready to go off and do the "flavour
> of the week" in terms of government funding and justify it that it is
> health promotion then as a activist I start to question the credibility of
> the discipline.  And when they start to talk about evidence based practice
> but seem to allow the idea that feeding a  child each school day and not
> week-ends and summers will somehow support that child to "learn better"
> then again, I am concerned for the discipline.

Absolutely - yet another reason why health promotion urgently needs a
sound theoretical base.  If health promoters were clear about the
purposes of their work then 'flavour of the week' grants would be
eschewed.

Keep the comments coming.

David