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

Healthy public policy

Additional recommended resources re. public policy
1.        [E] Bryant, T. (2002). Role of knowledge in public health and health promotion policy change. Health Promotion International, 17(1), 89-98.
2.        Bunton, R. (1992). Health promotion as social policy. In R. Bunton & G. Macdonald (Eds.), Health promotion: Disciplines and diversity . New, NY: Routledge.
3.        [E] de Leeuw, E. (1999). Healthy cities: Urban social entrepreneurship for health. Health Promotion International, 14(3), 261-269.
4.        [E] Keough, K. (2002). How science informs the decisions of government. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 93(2), 104-108.
5.        [E] Kickbusch, I., & Leeuw, E. d. (1999). Global public health: Revisiting healthy public policy at the global level. Health Promotion International, 14(4), 285-288.
6.        [E] Lavis, J. N., Farrant, M. S. R., & Stoddart, G. L. (2001). Barriers to employment-related healthy public policy in Canada. Health Promotion International, 16(1), 9-21.
7.        Milio, N. (2001). Evaluation of health promoting policies: Tracking a moving target. In I. Rootman, M. Goodstadt, B. Hyndman, D. McQueen, L. Potvin, J. Springett & E. Ziglio (Eds.), Evaluation in health promotion: Principles and perspectives. Copenhagen: World Health Organization.
8.        Milio, N. (1988). Making healthy public policy; developing the science by learning the art: An ecological framework for policy studies. Heath Promotion, 2(3), 263-274.
9.        Evans, T., Whitehead, M., Diderichsen, F., Bhuiya, A., & Wirth, M. (Eds.). (2001). Challenging Inequities in Health: From Ethics to Action New York: OxfordUniversity Press.
10.     Raphael, D. (Ed.). (2004). Social determinants of health: Canadian perspectives: Canadian Scholars' Press Inc.
11.     [E] Raphael, D. (2003). When Social Policy is Health Policy: Why Increasing Poverty and Low Income Threatens Canadians’ Health and Health Care System. Canadian Review of Social Policy(51), 9-28. (http://www.yorku.ca/crsp/issue51/issue51-2.pdf)
12.      [E] Rutten, A., Lengerke, T. v., Abel, T., Kannas, L., Luschen, G., Diaz, J. A. R., Vinck, J., & Zee, J. v. d. (2000). Policy, competence and particaption: Empirical evidence for a multilevel health promotion model. Health Promotion International, 15(1), 35-47.
13.     [E] Strobl, J., & Bruce, N. (2000). Achieving wider participation in strategic health planning; Experience from the consultation phase of Liverpool's "City Health Plan". Health Promotion International, 15(3), 215- 225.
14.     Watson, J., & Platt, S. (2000). Connecting policy and practice: The challenge for health promotion research. In J. Watson & S. Platt (Eds.), Researching health promotion . London: Routledge.
15.     Ziglio, E. (2000). Repositioning health promotion: Research implications. In J. Watson & S. Platt (Eds.), Researching health promotion . London: Routledge.
 

 
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