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Health Promotion International Advance Access originally published online on November 4, 2005
Health Promotion International 2005 20(4):317-319; doi:10.1093/heapro/dai026
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Questioning sustainability in health promotion projects and programs

Lawrence St Leger

Associate Editor
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"The precise definition of sustainability is still subject to debate. It has no single or universally accepted definition. Like truth and justice, it is not easily captured in a concise definition and means different things to different people"

(Auditor General of Victoria 2004Go).

The documented plans of most Health Promotion projects and programs usually contain the word ‘sustainability’. Some even identify specifically what is intended to be sustained, after the project or program funding resources cease. Yet, many plans do not tease out those important aspects of the intervention which are worth sustaining. Nor do they identify whether the intervention itself actually nurtures the processes necessary to ensure the stated intentions have a reasonable chance of being sustained.

For too long we have paid little attention to what we mean . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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