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Health Promotion International Advance Access originally published online on April 6, 2005
Health Promotion International 2005 20(2):205-207; doi:10.1093/heapro/dah613
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COMMENTARY

Evaluating the progress of the Health Promoting Hospitals Initiative? A WHO perspective

Commentary on: Whitehead, D. (2004) The European Health Promoting Hospitals (HPH) project: how far on? Health Promotion International, 19, 259–267.

O. Groene

World Health Organization, European Office for Integrated Health Care Services, Barcelona, Spain

Address for correspondence: Mr Oliver Grone, MA, MPH, Technical Officer Health Services, WHO European Office for Integrated Health Care Services, Marc Aureli 22–36, E-08006 Barcelona, Spain E-mail: ogr@es.euro.who.int

Key words: health promotion; hospitals; programme evaluation; standards

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We have read with interest the contribution of Dean Whitehead on ‘The European Health Promoting Hospitals (HPH) project: how far on?’ in a recent issue of Health Promotion International (Whitehead, 2004Go). He points out some of the issues the HPH movement has faced over the years that are linked to the inherent difficulties in changing the behaviour of organizations. However, we would like to clarify a number of points.

Dean Whitehead's article aims ‘to investigate the nature and progress of the European HPH movement’ and he concludes that ‘the majority of the available literature demonstrates a more limited impact than perhaps the World Health Organization (WHO) might have . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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