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Health Promotion International, Vol. 16, No. 1, 7-8, March 2001
© Oxford University Press 2001

EDITORIAL

Health promotion is fantastic, fascinating and fun—personal reflections

Hans Saan, Member

Editorial Board The Dutch press announced recently that the Prince of Orange would be the chair of a national committee on water management. I concluded at once that he would be the ideal national health promotion champion, as health promotion is keeping flowing water in a straw-basket!

Holding water in a straw basket: teaching and coaching health promotion often brings me to organic or artistic metaphors. Looking back, I still savour the moment in 1982 when I became part of the critical mass that put health promotion on the map. I realize now how this membership suited my personal biography. It offered me a constructive answer to the disillusions about the establishment and to the fear of the ‘one-dimensional man’ we voiced as students in the revolts at the universities in 1968. To celebrate about . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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