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Capacity building for health promotion and chronic disease prevention--Nova Scotia's experience
S Heath1, J Farquharson, D R MacLean
1Heart Health Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to report on the capacity building efforts that took place during the dissemination research phase of Heart Health Nova Scotia (HHNS). HHNS, a health promotion research team, is funded by Health Canada and the Nova Scotia Department of Health. It is located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, a province of 937,000 people situated on the east coast of Canada. It has been a member of the Canadian Heart Health Initiative since its inception in 1989. The first phase of the program, Demonstration, was successfully completed in December 1995 (Heart Health Nova Scotia, 1995). In 1996, HHNS entered its second phase, Dissemination Research, which was conducted between April 1996 and March 2001 in the Western Health Region of Nova Scotia. This was completed in collaboration with organizations, community groups, and government agencies who joined HHNS to form the Heart Health Partnership (HHP) (Heart Health Nova Scotia, 2001). The main aim of this phase of the initiative was to build and research organizational capacity for health promotion and chronic disease prevention.
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