Health Promotion International Advance Access originally published online on July 14, 2006
Health Promotion International 2006 21(3):169-171; doi:10.1093/heapro/dal022
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Communication technologies and health promotion: opportunities and challenges
E-mail: lawrence.stleger@deakin.edu.au
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Early in 2006 a group of researchers, evaluators and practitioners ‘gathered together’ to hear the author of a major report on health promotion effectiveness take us through her findings. While she was located in Europe we were distributed across Europe, North America, Western Pacific and Asia. Through an Internet mediated linkwe all saw the same PowerPoint presentation summarizing the evidence and then we engaged in discussions with the author and with one another. The immediacy of the evidence stimulated debate and enthusiasm. No one registered for a conference, no airfares were paid, there were no accommodation costs and we all had the up-to-date data and the opportunity to question the author and collectively discuss the report’s implications.
Only 2 days before, I was engaged with over 1600 students at Deakin University in Australia who were taking a first year unit called ‘Understanding Health'. All the students enrolled in this unit
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