Michel O'Neill

Vers un modèle d'évaluation de l'efficacité des interventions communautaires en promotion de la santé : compte-rendu de quelques développements Nord-américains récents1

The current systematic reviews to assess the effectiveness of community-based health promotion projects, be they quantitative (numerical meta-analyses) or qualitative (narrative reviews), both have significant drawbacks. Out of the work conducted for two initiatives, the developments for the Global programme on health promotion effectiveness carried at by the North American Region out of the International Union of Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE), as well as the work conducted for the ECIP (effectiveness of community interventions project) of Health Canada, a new way to approach the issue of effectiveness is proposed. Based on a «realist synthesis» epistemological position, this approach has led us to the first formulation of a framework aiming at identifying the mechanisms that explain why local programs are successful.

Education and training in health promotion and health education: trends, challenges and critical issues.

What we now think of as the field of health promotion has grown rapidly in the last 15 years, mainly out of the field of health education. With this expansion, has come the need to develop education and training programmes for current and future health promotion practitioners.

Defining health promotion clearly for teaching it precisely: a proposal.

uring the 1°HPE’S XVth World Conference on Health Promotion and Education. ~ held in Mak’1lhari. Japan in 1995, the interest in taking a comparative look at advanced training programmes in the fields of health promotion and education ~ was identified as a central concern of the participants of the Global Network Development (GND) sessions that convened academics. At the same meetings, several people wanted also to identify the elements of a &dquo;model programme&dquo; that could possibly inspire places wanting to start one.

Promotion de la santé : les générations montantes

7 IUHPE – PROMOTION & EDUCATION VOL. XII, NO. 1 2005 Generations et leadership en promotion de la sante Tous les « trekkies » le savent, ces fanatiques de la serie culte Americaine Star Trek connue partout sur la planete : les figures emblematiques des Kirk, Scott et autres Spock de la serie originale ont du finalement ceder leur place aux nouvelles figures des Picard (un Francais !) et consort de la serie The Next Generation, et finalement a la generation suivante de la serie Deep Space Nine ou le principal heros est une heroine, une femme ayant finalement accede au poste supreme de capitaine du vaisseau spatial Enterprise. Plusieurs evenements au cours de 2004 nous ont nous aussi confronte-es au renouvellement du leadership dans notre champ d’expertise, tant a l’echelle planetaire que sur les scenes nationales ou locales.

Training and education in health promotion and health education

Five sessions in all were devoted to issues of training and educating people in health promotion and health education.