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Health Promotion International, Vol. 19, No. 1, 1-4, March 2004
© Oxford University Press 2004. All rights reserved

Health promotion's record card: how principled are we 20 years on?

John Catford, Editor in Chief

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This year marks the 20th anniversary of the original paper on Health Promotion: Concepts and Principles, and the 10th anniversary of the International Union of Health Education including ‘health promotion’ in its title. Surely historians would rate the exponential growth of this new public health movement as extraordinary?

Across the world there are government health promotion strategies and reviews, statutory authorities and foundations, consumer interest groups, professional associations and journals. University departments and professors proudly bear the name, Masters and Bachelor degrees are in abundance and a new textbook seems to appear every few months. Millions of dollars are now increasingly being invested in health promotion programmes by governments and international organizations such as the World Bank, as well as through voluntary contributions from people themselves (Catford, 2003Go). It is quite remarkable that this has all happened in just two decades. But how true is the practice of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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