Glad to hear your CPHA experience was good. Sorry I was not back in town soon enough to loan you our LCD panel, but I assume to coped. I agree with your assessment of the CPHA proceedings and your sense that internetting has great potential to contribute to meeting the emerging needs in health promotion, especially in advocacy work. I would also second your other observation that we must not lose our skills in real-time interaction, or our investment in virtual reality will be at the expense of relating effectively on those fronts requiring old-fashioned communications. --Larry At 11:22 PM 7/9/96 -0400, Liz Rykert wrote: >Well it's over...;-) > >Alison and I presented the use of electronic venues in a practice >presentation at the Canadian Public Health Conference in Vancouver last >week.For those on the list who were there please add your impressions as a >reply to this topic. > >For those who may have just joined us...Welcome! At anytime we welcome new >participants or lurkers who want to jump in. Post a quick sign on and let us >know who you are, how you have been using the internet in your work (or how >you would like to!) and let us know what you would like to get out of the list. > >If you would like a brief summary of where we are at on the list send me >email: <[log in to unmask]> and I'll try to bring you up to speed. > >Right now we are in a discussion about the relationship between the literal >and virtual workspaces. You will see this discussion appear under different >topics. > >At the conference people were talking a lot about restructuring and reform >in health care. There was a strong emphasis placed on the need to join with >other sectors to address and create health public policy. There was a call >for more advocacy and social justice work. > >The use of the internet may become increasingly important as we learn to >work across boundaries...professionals, communities of common bond, sectors >(public, private, non-profit) and interest (health education social >employment housing etc). > >In our presentation we emphasized to need to work in both the literal and >virtual, to have our work in these areas complement each other. The >questions we had were good ones...Where will I find the time? What about >access? It pointed out the need to continue with the thread of understanding >how we transform our work and not to see the use of the technologies as an >add on. > >Throughout the conference delegates were invited to participate in drafting >a National (Canada) Statement for Health Promotion. I invite those of you on >the list who participated in these sessions to post the outcome of this effort. > >There were many interesting panels and presentations. Perhaps next time we >will see an online summary of the days proceedings posted....next year! > >So the presentation is over...how are folks feeling about continuing the >list? (click4hp)...seems like a good idea to me but then some might argue I >have a bias ;-) > >Liz Rykert >co-facilitator ><[log in to unmask]> > > Lawrence W. Green Institute of Health Promotion Research University of British Columbia 2206 East Mall, Room 324 Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4 (604) 822-5776 July 1996 (604) 731-1974 Fax: (604) 822-9210