Forwarding as requested....Liz Rykert <[log in to unmask]>
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>> Judi Quail recently wrote:
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>> One of the things that is happening with so many people gradually gaining
access to
>> the internet is that the health care provider will not be in control of the
>> information partakers receive.
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>JM Dupont responds:
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>You raise an interesting point relating to the old "care provider" and
>"passive recipient" paradigm in health development , or as you wrote:
"health C-A-R-E".
>Medical information is one thing, information on social issues is another.
Some may
>argue with me though not to make the distinction.  To some, health
promotion is still
>education / information dissemination-based and to others it has evolved
into more of a
>community development concept where there is little room for control,
power, (you know
>the old: "helping people to take more control over the issues that are
important to
>them, etc..."
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>I suspect people will have varying opinions, depending on where on the
spectrum they
>understand health promotion to be. I have been following the debate over
"health care"
>as a term actually now being an oxymoron if we accept the new definitions
of health now
>internationally recognized.  Call it "medical care" is the argument of many.
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>Without getting into a whole discussion around this point, let's just say
the concepts
>and the language we use are obviously colsely related.  On a daily basis
when I read a
>newspaper article for example,  I wonder if PEOPLE (not just "patients",
"clients",
>"service recipients"), or those information partakers as Judi wrote are
aware of the
>different paradigms operating depending on the writer.
>
>I would argue the same applies to someone lurking in an Internet newsgroup
for example.
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>Then, Judi Quail wrote:
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>> What assistance do people need to help them to access information, to
>> understand it and to begin to make some judgements about it, and then to use
>> it?  What needs to be in place to assist people to find their way through
>> the tremendous amount of information out there.  It is almost like people
>> will need mini- research skills, because they are going to be learning about
>> information itself, not only the subject matter. I'd like to do some more
>> reading on this so if anyone can suggest any articles, research studies
>> whatever I'd appreciate hearing from you.
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>JM Dupont then responded:
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>I really connect with you on this one Judy.  To your question "what needs
to be in
>place?" I am at a loss even trying to suggest how the Internet will address
this over
>the coming years.
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>I suspect though we all need to brush up on how to better communicate.
"Plain writing"
>as a skill, for example, is one I personally always have to work on.  I
realize it's
>probably subconscious, but many of us often make assumptions in terms of
what people
>really know / understand.  Do we always remind ourselves that the target
audiences that
>may be "hit" by our messages are not always the ones we initially intended?
Do we use
>jargon like I just did in my last sentence?  Boy am I guilty of that one!
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>I suspect the variously defined "health promotion" folks will have a
slightly different
>slant on all of this than the medical service delivery folks attempting to
distribute
>information.  I may be incorrect here as well.
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>I too, would be interested in hearing from others on these points.
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>Thanks for posting and getting this interesting discussion going Judi.
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>Jean-Marc (JM) Dupont
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