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Health Promotion International, Vol. 17, No. 3, 201-203, September 2002
© Oxford University Press 2002

EDITORIAL

Does health promotion need a code of ethics?

Colin Sindall, Reviews Editor

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One recent landmark in the maturity and achievement of the health promotion movement has been the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) report to the European Commission on the Evidence of Health Promotion Effectiveness (European Commission, 1999Go). This report, and many recent papers on the nature of evidence in health promotion, demonstrate that health promotion has come a long way in establishing its credentials as an effective, and technically and conceptually sophisticated player in the health arena and beyond.

Less progress has been made, apparently, in the development of a similar level of sophistication in articulating health promotion’s moral and ethical credentials. A recent editorial in this journal noted that younger practitioners are developing high levels of technical efficiency. However, the author commented, technical excellence is not always accompanied by equally important competencies in theoretical development, understanding of broader social issues and reflection on health promotion’s ‘reason . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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