This article describes two workshops on health‐promoting policy change, developed and
delivered to more than 1,000 public and community health practitioners across one …

In its 2003 seminal report, Who Will Keep the Public Healthy: Educating Public Health
Professionals for the 21st Century, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) recognized a …

Professional and governmental enterprises in health promotion are based on serious
conceptual, operational, and ethical flaws. Proposes an approach to health promotion …

This article presents a case study of a health promotion program that successfully operated
for four years but terminated when its federal and state funding ended, ie, it failed to become …

This article presents a new way of using advocacy communication strategies for health
communication. The traditional perspective on advocacy, promoted in mainstream public …

Health advocacy is a central responsibility for health educators and public health
practitioners, as documented clearly in our professional competencies. Professional …

Two blockbuster research findings reported recently in the national press—one from the field
of education, the other from medicine—have something important in common: They are the …

This article was written in the wake of the first International Conference on Health Promotion,
held in Ottawa in 1986, to resist a potential polarization of ideological views in health …

Objectives Improving population health often involves policy changes that are the result of
complex advocacy efforts. Information exchanges among researchers, advocates, and …