Health Promotion through indirect interventions or Safety Promotion in New Arenas. Call for other evidenced based examples! We have recently made a feasability study concerning a new model for alcohol and traffic information using a Vehicle test centre in Sweden that served as an arena for intervention. At the yearly mandatory motor vehicle inspection a questionnaire was distributed prior to the inspection and an answer pamphlet was provided when the vehicle had been inspected, in other words, intervention via investigation. It could also be called health promotion advocacy by other sectors than the health services. In summary the Vehicle test centres served well as an arena for intervention as contact is made with drivers in important age categories during a short period of time and at limited expense. This did raise a number of question on other examples of using one setting/ arena, in our example the Vehicle test centres for interventions on alcohol use, e.g. drinking driving and safety promotion. We now look for similar examples from other settings reported on in the litterature. The basic councelling for stop smoking by GPs when patients come to their practices for other reasons are well documented. But what about other personell cathegories and their stop smoking advices? Studies on documented actions on smoking by dentists? Do they exist? We have also thought of screening procedures in the health services like mammography screening beeing used for smoking prevention. Is there such an example? And, what about the advising/ health education by pharmacists in drugstores? Is there available studies on the effects of their advising? Please provide us with references or e-mails for contact persons dealing with projects of indirect interventions. Yours Bo J A Haglund ass professor, director WHO Collaborating Centre Karolinska Centre on Supportive Environments for Health Karolinska Institute Dept of Public Health Sciences Division of Social Medicine, S-172 83 SUNDBYBERG, Sweden tel: + 46 8 629 05 64 fax at work: + 46 8 28 95 00; Internet adress: [log in to unmask] ************************************************************************** Supportive Environments for Health is about where people live, love, work, and play - in short, about everday life **************************************************************************