Health Promotion Strategies
Course readings and resources
Introduction to HP practice
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Role of evidence
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Introduction to HP practice

Additional recommended readings/resourcesre: health promotion, population health, determinants of health, etc.
 
 
1.        [E] Aber, J. L., Bennett, N. G., Conley, D. C., & Li, J. (1997). The effects of poverty on child health and development. Annual Review of Public Health, 18, 463-483.
2.        [E] Baum, A., & Posluzny, D. M. (1999). Health psychology: Mapping biobehavioral contributions to health and illness. Annual Review of Psychology, 50, 137-163.
3.        [E] Bradley, R. H., & Corwyn, R. F. (2002). Socioeconomic status and child development. Annu. Rev. Psychol., 53(1), 371-399.
4.        [E] Catford, J. (2004). "Health promotion's record card: how principled are we 20 years on?" Health Promot. Int. 19(1): 1-4. http://heapro.oxfordjournals.org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/cgi/reprint/19/1/1
5.        Chaudhuri, N. (1998). Child health, poverty and the environment: The Canadian context. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 89(Supplement), S26-S30.
6.        [E] Coburn, D. (2000). Income inequality, social cohesion and the health status of populations: the role of neo-liberalism. Social Science & Medicine, 51(1), 135-146.
7.        [E] Evans, G. W., & Kantrowitz, E. (2002). Socioeconomic status and health: The Potential Role of Environmental Risk Exposure. Annu. Rev. Public Health, 23(1), 303-331.
8.        [E] Hawe, P., & Shiell, A. (2000). Social capital and health promotion: A review. Social Science & Medicine, 51, 871-885.
9.        Kahan, B. R., & Goodstadt, M. S. (1999). Understanding the determinants of health: Key decision makers in Saskatchewan Health Districts and Saskatchewan Health, 1998. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 90(Supplement 1), S47-S52.
10.     [E] Kawachi, I., Kennedy, B. P., & Glass, R. (1999). Social capital and self-rated health: A contextual analysis. American Journal of Public Health, 89(8), 1187-1193.
11.     [E] Kawachi, I., & Kennedy, B. P. (1997). Health and social cohesion: Why care about income inequality? British Medical Journal, 314, 1037-1040
12.     Labonte, R. (1995). Population health and health promotion: What do they have to say to each other? Canadian Journal of Public Health, 86(3), 165-168.
13.     [E] McKinlay, J. B., & Marceau, L. D. (2000). To boldly go... American Journal of Public Health, 90(1), 25-33.
14.     [E] Lee, P., & Paxman, D. (1997). Reinventing public health. Annual Review of Public Health, 18, 1-35. http://arjournals.annualreviews.org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.publhealth.18.1.1 
15.     [E]Poland, B., Coburn, D., Robertson, A., & Eakin, J. (1998). Wealth, equity and health care: a critique of a population health perspective on the determinants of health. Social Science & Medicine, 46(7), 785-798.
16.     Raphael, D. (Ed.). (2004). Social determinants of health: Canadian perspectives: Canadian Scholars' Press Inc.
17.     [E] Raphael, D., & Bryant, T. (2002). The limitations of population health as a model for a new public health. Health Promotion International, 17(2), 189-199. http://heapro.oxfordjournals.org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/cgi/reprint/17/2/189 
18.     [E] Raphael, D. (2000). Health inequalities in Canada: Current discourses and implications for public health action. Critical Public Health, 10(2), 193-216.
19.     Robertson, A. (1998). Shifting discourses on health in Canada: from health promotion to population health. Health Promotion International, 13(2), 155-166.
20.     [E] St Leger, L. (2001). Building and finding the new leaders in health promotion: where is the next wave of health promotion leaders and thinkers? Are they emerging from particular regions, and are they less than 40 years old? Health Promotion International, 16(4), 301-303.
21.     [E] Subramanian, S. V., Belli, P., & Kawachi, I. (2002). The macroeconomic determinants of health. Annu. Rev. Public Health, 23(1), 287-302.
22.     Wade, T. J., Pevalin, D. J., & Brannigan, A. (1999). The clustering of severe behavioural, health and educational deficits in Canadian Children: Preliminary evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 90(4), 253-259.
23.     [E] Wagstaff, A., & van Doorslaer, E. (2000). Income inequality and health: What does the literature tell us? Annual Review of Public Health, 21, 543-567.
24.     [E] Wilkinson, R. G. (2000). Deeper than "neoliberalism". A reply to David Coburn. Social Science & Medicine, 51, 997-1000.
25.     [E] Yen, I. H., & Syme, S. L. (1999). The social environment and health: A discussion of the epidemiological literature. Annual Review of Public Health, 20, 287-308.
 

 
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