------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: Self <Single-user mode> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Further to 'Politics of HP' and prenatal nutrition Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 16:11:57 > > They are very strange assumptions - based on tradition and emotion > > mostly (few people are prepared to accept starving chiildren - at > > least those living near us). A coherent health policy could not > > sustain this illogic - either people are important or they are not! > > > Right, but them as an anti-poverty activist that sees again another cut in > provincial welfare rates this month with the explanation that this money > will be given to more programs including child feeding programs, I can not > help but wonder if people aren't part of the solution then they are part of > the problem. > > When it seems the whole discipline is ready to go off and do the "flavour > of the week" in terms of government funding and justify it that it is > health promotion then as a activist I start to question the credibility of > the discipline. And when they start to talk about evidence based practice > but seem to allow the idea that feeding a child each school day and not > week-ends and summers will somehow support that child to "learn better" > then again, I am concerned for the discipline. Absolutely - yet another reason why health promotion urgently needs a sound theoretical base. If health promoters were clear about the purposes of their work then 'flavour of the week' grants would be eschewed. Keep the comments coming. David