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Health promotion: issues and answers
1Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.
The West Indian Medical Journal
|June 16, 1999
Summary
Health promotion programmes are gaining global attention. This article discusses challenges in health promotion implementation, such as relevance and outcome measurement, referencing a Caribbean framework.
Area of Science:
- Public Health
- Health Promotion Strategies
Background:
- Growing global focus on developing health promotion programmes.
- Emerging challenges in articulating and implementing health promotion concepts.
- Issues identified include relevance, ownership, and outcome measurement.
Purpose of the Study:
- To discuss key issues in health promotion programme development.
- To highlight practical challenges in health promotion implementation.
- To reference a Caribbean framework for health promotion.
Main Methods:
- Literature review and conceptual discussion.
- Analysis of emerging issues in health promotion.
- Case study reference to a Caribbean implementation framework.
Main Results:
- Identified critical issues in health promotion: relevance, ownership, and outcome measurement.
- Highlighted the need for practical approaches to health promotion.
- Presented a Caribbean framework as a model for implementation.
Conclusions:
- Addressing identified issues is crucial for effective health promotion.
- Frameworks like the Caribbean model can guide practical implementation.
- Further research on outcome measurement in health promotion is needed.