http://heapro.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/18/2/163.pdf
SUMMARY
When people involved in children’s
feeding programs were asked to describe them, without exception they were
described using phrases that reflected the perception of ‘wonderfulness’.
This paper critically analyses the ‘wonderfulness’ of children’s feeding
programs by examining the language used to describe these programs, and
the features of a ‘wonderful’ program through an analysis of a multi-site,
qualitative case study of nine diverse programs in Atlantic
Canada. When participants justified
their comments about the ‘wonderfulness’ of children’s feeding programs,
they did so based upon five perceptions of program strengths: enhanced
family coping; providing good food and nutrition; socializing and making
friends; behaving well in school; and volunteerism. We suggest that programs
can be designed to be innately ‘wonderful’ if they are community- and
charity-based, support a noble cause such as the elimination of child hunger,
engage good people as donors and volunteers, and provide a direct service
to children apart from their families. We challenge health promoters to
beware of the ‘wonderful’ program; its ‘wonderfulness’ may actually
be masking unintended negative impacts upon its participants.
Dennis Raphael, PhD
Professor of Health Policy and Management
York University
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Of interest:
*NEW* Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives, 2nd edition,
edited by Dennis Raphael
Forewords by Carolyn Bennett and Roy Romanow
http://tinyurl.com/5l6yh9
Poverty and Policy in Canada: Implications for Health and Quality of Life
by Dennis Raphael
Foreword by Jack Layton
http://tinyurl.com/2hg2df
Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care,
edited by Dennis Raphael, Toba Bryant, and Marcia Rioux
Foreword by Gary Teeple
http://tinyurl.com/2zqrox
See a lecture! The Politics of Population Health
http://msl.stream.yorku.ca/mediasite/viewer/?peid=ac604170-9ccc-4268-a1af-9a9e04b28e1d
Also, presentation on Politics and Health at the Centre for Health Disparities
in Cleveland Ohio
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4129139685624192201&hl=en
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