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Health Promotion International, Vol. 16, No. 4, 301-303, December 2001
© Oxford University Press 2001

EDITORIAL

Building and finding the new leaders in health promotion: where is the next wave of health promotion leaders and thinkers? Are they emerging from particular regions, and are they less than 40 years old?

L. St Leger, Associate Editor

I asked myself these two questions recently after attending two conferences: the IUHPE Conference in Paris in July 2001 and the National Health Promotion Conference on the Australian Gold Coast in June 2001.

At both conferences, a range of papers and posters were presented reflecting various issues, which participants argued were part of health promotion. Many of these were excellent descriptions of what was being done at local and regional levels to address a categorical issue, e.g. tobacco use, sedentary behaviour, sun protection, poor diet, etc. Most presented evaluation findings and a few provided a brief overview of what the results meant for health promotion theory and practice. My impression was that the quality of the health promotion interventions around health issues (and their conference presentations) had shown considerable improvement over the last 15 years. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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