Building health promotion capacity: action for learning, learning from action

✍ Scribed by Scott McLean, Joan Feather, David Butler-Jones

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 153
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Building Health Promotion Capacity explores the professional practice of health promotion and, in particular, how individuals and organizations can become more effective in undertaking and supporting such practice. The book is based on the experiences of the Building Health Promotion Capacity Project (1998-2003), a continuing education and applied research venture affiliated with the Saskatchewan Heart Health Program. The project studied the process of capacity development in relation to practitioners and regional health districts in Saskatchewan. For health promotion practitioners across Canada and beyond, this book provides a coherent framework for effective professional practice. Leaders in health sector organizations will develop a firmer grasp of how to support health promotion practice and how to recruit and retain individual practitioners with a high level of capacity. Policy makers will improve their knowledge of environments that support the health promotion capacity of individuals and organizations. Scholars will learn about the nature of health promotion capacity and about a methodology for its study.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Tables and Figures......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 12
Part 1: Setting the Stage......Page 14
1 Introduction: Action, Learning, and Capacity Building......Page 16
2 Making the Building Health Promotion Capacity Project Happen......Page 22
Part 2: Action for Learning......Page 36
3 Understanding Health Promotion Capacity......Page 38
4 Building Health Promotion Capacity......Page 54
Part 3: Learning from Action......Page 86
5 Practitioners......Page 88
6 Organizations......Page 106
7 The Environment......Page 120
Part 4: Conclusions......Page 130
8 Reflections on Building Health Promotion Capacity......Page 132
References......Page 142
C......Page 148
H......Page 149
I......Page 150
O......Page 151
S......Page 152
W......Page 153