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Health Promotion International, Vol. 9, No. 4, 269-278, 1994
© Oxford University Press 1994

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School-based community development as a health promotion strategy for children

ILZE V. KALNINS, CORINNE HART, PERI BALLANTYNE, GEORGIA QUARTARO, RHONDA LOVE, GUNTA STURIS and PATTI POLLACK

Department of Behavioural Science, University of Toronto Toronto, Canada Faculty of Community Services, George Brown College Toronto, Canada Department of Behavioural Science, University of Toronto Toronto, Canada Child and Youth Worker Program, George Brown College Toronto, Canada Lawrence Heights Community Health Centre Toronto, Canada

Address for correspondence: Address for correspondence: Dr Ilze Kalnins University of Toronto Department of Behavioural Science McMurrich Building 12 Queen's Park Crescent W. Toronto, Ontario Canada M5S 1A8

In this paper we discuss our experience of engaging 9–10-year-old children in grade 4 in a community development process to deal with community health problems they consider important. With guidance from a facilitator, young children can work cooperatively to identify problems, set priorities, and design and implement activities to address a community health issue. They can reflect upon their actions and the process within which they have worked and can realize that the process can be applied to the resolution of other community problems. However, children's levels of cognitive and social maturity and their position in society present special issues for the use of community development as a health education strategy

Key words: children; community development; health promotion


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