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Health Promotion International Advance Access originally published online on October 29, 2008
Health Promotion International 2008 23(4):299-301; doi:10.1093/heapro/dan034
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Evaluating community-based health promotion initiatives: an ongoing necessity and challenge

Lawrence St Leger, Associate Editor

E-mail: Lawrence.stleger@deakin.edu.au

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In Cairo of June 2008, the Board of Trustees of the International Union of Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) held its annual meeting. At the conclusion of the meeting, the Board received presentations from a number of NGOs, e.g. UNESCO, UNFPA and UNICEF, about health promotion activities in Egypt. Various field visits were also arranged.

One of these visits took the IUHPE Trustees into a very poor area of Cairo where members of the local community and project officers described what they were doing to improve the health and well-being of their community. The writer was a participant in the field visit and like the other Trustees was very impressed with what was happening. There was strong evidence of consultation, partnership, ownership, commitment and empowerment. Discussion between the Trustees suggested that if we had with us a set of evidenced-based guidelines about community-led health promotion, then ‘nearly all the boxes . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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