This produced a new wave of thought and action in the late 1970s that is building enough
momentum to create a" wash" throughout the health care delivery system during the decade …

People initiative with the Surgeon General's Report on Health Promotion and Disease
Prevention (US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1979), the decade saw …

There is a critical need to build the capacity of our current and future public health workforce
and the communities we serve to engage in public health advocacy. Advocacy should be an …

The World Bank helps countries to arrive at whatever combination of public and private
control is best for their particular economic circumstances. This booklet describes that work …

A new era of health care reform places increasing pressure on public health leaders and
agencies to participate in the public policy arena. Public health professionals have long …

HE OPTIONS for communicating health information through a health promotion program are
changing with each new wave of technological advances. Instant messaging has been …

Policy approaches to health promotion and disease prevention hold great potential, as
several community-based projects have illustrated. Policy interventions, despite their wide …

The authors of the Ottawa Charter selected the words enable, mediate and advocate to
describe the core activities in what was, in 1986, the new Public Health. This article …

This is one of six short papers that describe additional innovations to help integrate public
health into medical education; these were featured in the “Patients and Populations: Public …

Note to readersCDate last revised: 25 July 2001. May be cited as: McCubbin, M., Labonte,
R., and Dallaire, B.(2001). Advocacy for healthy public policy as a health promotion …