International web sites & resources

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International

The Department of Non-Communicative Diseases (NCD) Prevention and Health Promotion, WHO, works to reduce the incidence of NCDs and promote positive health and wellbeing, with a focus on developing countries. Their website gives full details of these initiatives.

Canadas

CLICK4HP is a Canadian health promotion discussion list. Currently there are about 1000 members from across the world. Members of the mailing list regularly debate issues in contemporary health promotion, seek input regarding program development and evaluation and share useful reports, publications and resources. Many Australian health promotion practitioners are active participants of CLICK4HP.

To subscribe send an email to LISTSERV@YORKU.CA with the subject line blank and a message saying SUBSCRIBE CLICK4HP. This will be followed up with a confirmation email to your email. Alternatively you can join through the CLICK4HP website at CLICK4HP website. Archives of previous information are also available at this address.

Health Canada hosts a comprehensive health promotion website which links to their directories of resources, tools and programs. Also linked to this site is Health Promotion on-line with current news and programs. The Health Canada population health approach web site provides a comprehensive range of reports, research documents, strategy papers and policy papers relating to population health.

The Health Communication Unit at theCentre for Health Promotion, University of Toronto has an extensive listing of websites and list serves covering the topics of health promotion, planning, evaluation, health communication and policy development.

The Centre for Health Promotion at the University of Toronto overall site gives links to a number of their programs and resources, including a WHO annotated bibliography of health promotion resources and the centre’s own publications.

The Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse (OPC) is a not-for-profit agency working with groups and communities in Toronto, Canada. The websiteprovides a starting point for the services offered by the OPC as well as some great online publications and an excellent site of bookmarks and hot links.

The Tools of Change web site is founded on the principles of community-based social marketing and offers specific tools, case studies and a planning guide for health promotion. Many examples of best practice programs are also provided. The case study section is particularly useful and well designed.

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is an independent, non-profit research organisation. It aims to promote research on economic and social policy issues from a progressive point of view. The website provides access to a large number of research reports and policy papers.

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USA

The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion web site Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion web site provides access to key US Federal Government publications, reports and announcements.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention is the main US public health site and provides comprehensive information about a range of public health issues, includes access to data and statistics, publications, and links to other public health web resources.

The Society for Public Health Education provides a comprehensive website and includes information about courses, online presentations, publications, journals and resources.

Measuring Community Success and Sustainability is an interactive workbook which aims to provide guidance to communities, non-government agencies and health professionals wanting to improve their understanding of the ways to gather information that details progress toward community-based outcomes.

The Public Health Grand Rounds Public Health Grand Rounds website periodically assembles a panel of specialists in public health to provide current information about a specific public health issue and to assess the problem from their professional perspective, knowledge and experience. The goal of Public Health Grand Rounds is to promote a leadership-level national dialogue on public health issues of strategic significance.

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European

The Health Promotion Research Internet Network (HPRIN) is based at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden Karolinska Institute in Sweden and provides links to health promotion research centres, schools of public health and other Internet resources of interest. Searches can be conducted by geographical region, which provides a useful breakdown. The HPRIN also manages a mailing list for group discussions.

A new site being established is called Review of Health Promotion and Education Online. The purpose and aim of the site is to improve the quality of health promotion and health education by publishing regularly a rating of recent articles that are relevant for development, implementation and evaluation.

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