I would echo this - especially in the UK there is a rich stream of
people working in public health across old method, clinical and
specialism boundaries. I used to work there on a team with a medical
sociologist, epidemiologist, cardiologist and public health
decision-maker.
Multi-disciplinary teams have been the way there for at least a decade.
This is less the case in Canada but things are changing. Perhaps, we
need to engage more internationally to pick up on these trends quicker.
A
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Pennock, Michael
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 3:08 PM
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I think you're spot on in most of your comments. I share your concerns
about the uneasy alliance between population health and traditional
epidemiology but would argue that epi is changing as a result of pop
health. A newer discipline of population health epidemiology is emerging
which is quite different from clinical epi although it draws on some of
the same methods but includes much broader methods from the social
sciences and elsewhere. Like health promotion, epidemiology must become
more multi-disciplinary to embrace the determinants.
Mike Pennock
Population Health Epidemiologist
Office of the Chief Medical Health Officer
Vancouver Island Health Authority
430- 1900 Richmond Ave.
Victoria BC V8V 4R2
(250) 519-7092
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Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 11:31 AM
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I have been asked to write a "critique of the history and
development of health promotion in Canada."
Here is my abstract!
dr
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Grasping at Straws:
The History and Development of Health Promotion in Canada
Arguably, the most important contribution of health promotion
has been the identification of the role that societal structures and
public policy play in shaping the health of populations in general and
the most vulnerable in particular. Despite Canada's reputation as a
leader in the development of such health promotion concepts, the
implementation of these concepts in the service of health has always
been far from stellar and has lagged behind developments in most other
developed nations. Much of this has to do with Canada's liberal
political economy and the recent ascendance of neo-liberal approaches to
public policymaking. These developments have combined with longstanding
biomedical and epidemiological traditions to inhibit the development of
a structural approach to health promotion. While the emergence of
population health as a competing discourse to health promotion has
facilitated the development of numerous research initiatives related to
t! he determinants of health, any potential benefits of such activities
have been more than offset by the negatives associated with population
health's epidemiological orientation. There are continuing efforts by a
handful of visionary Canadian health promotion advocates to implement
the vision of health promotion outlined in the Ottawa Charter and
subsequent WHO health promotion declarations and charters. There is also
increasing attention being paid in reports and documents to the social
determinants of health. These efforts however count for little in the
face of massive amounts of government spending, media attention, and
health sector activities being lavished on "lifestyle" approaches to
health promotion. The emergence of the "obesity epidemic" as a focus of
public, media, and health sectors attention has only served to reinforce
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