Health Promotion Strategies
Course readings and resources
Introduction to HP practice
Decision making in HP practice
Role of evidence
Roles of values & theory
Health education
Health communication
Organizational development & change
Community development & organization
Healthy public policy
Advocacy

Community development & organization

Additional recommended resources re. community development & organization
1.        [E] Elovainio, M., Kivimaki, M., & Vahtera, J. (2002). Organizational justice: Evidence of a new psychosocial predictor of health. American Journal of Public Health, 92(1), 105-108.
2.        Baker, E. A., & Teaser-Polk, C. (1998). Measuring community capacity: Where do we go from here? Health Education & Behavior, 25(3), 279-283.
3.        Best, A., Stokols, D., Green, L. W., Leischow, S., Holmes, B., & Buchholtz, K. (2003). An integrative framework for community partnering to translate theory into effective health promotion strategy. American Journal of Health Promotion, 18(2), 168-176.
4.        [E] Brinkerhoff, J. M. (2002). Assessing and improving partnership relationships and outcomes: a proposed framework. Evaluation and Program Planning, 25(3), 215-231.
5.        Fishbein, M. (1996). Editorial: great expectations, or do we ask too much from community-level interventions. American Journal of Public Health, 86, 1075-1076.
6.        [E] Gillies, P. (1998). Effectiveness of alliances and partnerships for health promotion. Health Promotion International, 13(2), 99-120.
7.        Goodman, R. M., Speers, M. A., McLeroy, K., & et al. (1998). Identifying and defining the dimensions of community capacity to provide a basis of measurement. Health Education & Behavior, 25(3), 257-283.
8.        Institute of Medicine (Ed.). (1997). Improving health in the community: A role for performance monitoring. Washington, DC: NationalAcademy Press.
9.        [E] Israel, B. A., Schulz, A. J., Parker, E. A., & Becker, A. B. (1998). Review of community-based research: Assessing partnership approaches to improve public health. Annual Review of Public Health, 19, 173-202.
10.      [E] Kegler, M. C., Twiss, J. M., & Look, V. (2000). Assessing community change at multiple levels: The genesis of an evaluation framework for the California Healthy Cities Project. Health Education & Behavior, 27(6), 760-779.
11.     Kreuter, M. W., Lezin, N. A., & Young, L. A. (2000). Evaluating community-based collaborative mechanisms: Implications for practitioners. Health Promotion Practice, 1(1), 49-63.
12.     [E] Laverack, G., & Wallerstein, N. (2001). Measuring community empowerment: a fresh look at organizational domains. Health Promotion International, 16(2), 179-185.
13.     Nakkash R., Soweid R.A.A, Nehlawi M.T., Shediac-Rizkallah M.C., Hajjar T.A., & Khogali M. (2003). The Development of a Feasible Community-Specific Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Program: Triangulation of Methods and Sources. Health Education & Behavior, 30(6).
14.     [E] Raphael, D., Steinmetz, B., Renwick, R., Rootman, I., Brown, I., Sehdev, H., Phillips, S., & Smith, T. (1999). The Community Quality of Life Project: A health promotion approach to understanding communities. Health Promotion International, 14(3), 197-210.
15.     [E] Robinson, K. L., & Elliott, S. J. (2000). The practice of community development approaches in heart health promotion. Health Education Research, 15(2), 219-231.
16.     [E] Roussos, S. T., & Fawcett, S. B. (2000). A review of collaborative partnerships as a strategy for improving community health. Annual Review of Public Health, 21, 369-402.
17.     [E] Sorensen, G., Emmons, K., Hunt, M. K., & Johnston, D. (1998). Implications of the results of community intervention trials. Annual Review of Public Health, 19, 379-416.
18.     [E] Thompson, B., Coronado, G., Snipes, S. A., & Puschel, K. (2003). Methodologic advances and ongoing challenges in designing community-based health promotion programs. Annual Review of Public Health, 24, 315-340.
 
 

 
Michael Goodstadt Ph.D., C.Psych. Director MPH Program in Health Promotion, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada m.goodstadt@utoronto.ca