Section Name Description
Module 1 - Overview of Health Promotion and Key Milestones in Its History URL Theories and Models Frequently Used in Health Promotion

Read the entire PDF document. (4 minutes)

URL Health Promotion Values

Read the circular diagram on the webpage. (1 minute)

URL Health Promotion Theories

Read pages 52- 57 from the Health Belief Model to right before the Transtheoretical Model and 61-63 for the Social Ecological Model. (34 minutes)

URL Introduction to Health Education And Health Promotion

Read pages 2 & 3 on Health Education & Health Promotion. (5 minutes)

URL Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change

Read the entire webpage. (5 minutes)

URL Understanding health education, health promotion and public health

Read the entire Article. (14 minutes)

URL Eight Steps to Building Healthy Public Policies

Read the entire PDF document. (10  minutes)

URL Health Promotion: Trajectory and Current Perspectives

Read the entire chapter. (12 minutes)

URL Chapter 2: History of Health Promotion

Read from "Introduction" until "Six Phases in the Evolution of Primary Care/Prevention." (56 minutes)

Module 2 - Key Concepts and Values in Health Promotion URL Improving Health in the Community: A Role for Performance Monitoring.

Read from the topic "A Model of the Determinants of Health" to "Conclusion." (23 minutes)

URL Evaluating the Public Health Impact of Health Promotion Interventions: The RE-AIM Framework

Read pages 1322 to 1325. This includes the Abstract, Introduction, Re-AIM model, and Discussion. (20 minutes)

URL Principles and Basic Concepts of Equity and Health

Read the entire document. (36 minutes)

URL A Human Rights Based Approach to Health

Read the entire document. (15 minutes)

URL COVID-19 and health promotion in Brazil: community health workers between vulnerability and resistance

Read the sections: Introduction, Health Promotion before COVID-19 and the Vulnerabilities of CHW, and Discussion. (17 minutes)

Module 3: Health Promotion Frameworks, Theories, and Principles URL Health Promotion Theories and Models

Read the entire article. (16 minutes)

URL Principled Promotion of Health: Implementing Five Guiding Health Promotion Principles for Research-Based Prevention and Management of Diabetes

Read from section 2.1.2 Brief Discussion to the end of 3. General Discussion. (39 minutes)

URL Unravelling mechanisms underlying the action principles of a community-based health promotion programme: a realist evaluation

Read the sections Study Setting, Study Design, and Discussion. (15 minutes)

URL Health needs assessment: A practical guide

Supplementary Resource

URL Baby Steps: Using Intervention Mapping to Develop a Sustainable Perinatal Physical Activity Healthcare Intervention

Read sections 2.4 to 3.6. (45 minutes)

URL The use of evaluation methods for the overall assessment of health policy: potential and limitations

Read the entire Article. (49 minutes)

URL How Health Promoters Can Assess Capacity Building Processes in Setting-Based Approaches—Development and Testing of a Monitoring Instrument

Read sections 1 & 2. (24 minutes)

URL Building capacity for evidence-based public health: Reconciling the pulls of practice and the push of research

Read sections on "Why evidence-based public health matters", "Promising approaches for building capacity", & "Challenges and opportunities for research and practice." (31 minutes)

URL Effectiveness of capacity building interventions relevant to public health practice: a systematic review

Read the "Abstract, Background, & Discussion". (20 minutes)

File From Theory to Practice (Book)

Mandatory reading for this topic; a summary of the most important aspects of this topic.

Module 4 - Health Promotion Strategies and Practice URL Application of the Ottawa Charter Five Priority Areas of Action for Public Health to an Institution-Wide Diabetes Care Promotion

Read the sections "2.3.1. Action 1: Develop Personal Skills" to "2.3.5. Action 5: Build Healthy Public Policy". (17 minutes)

URL Health Promotion: An Effective Tool for Global Health

Read sections on "Conferences in Health Promotion and Approaches to Health Promotion." (8 minutes)

URL Application of the Ottawa Charter Five Priority Areas of Action for Public Health to an Institution-Wide Diabetes Care Promotion

Read the sections "2.3.1. Action 1: Develop Personal Skills" to "2.3.5. Action 5: Build Healthy Public Policy" (17 minutes)

URL Evaluation of health promotion, public health or public policy interventions

Read the sections "5.6 Examples of evidence-based health promotion actions to improve health" and "Tables 5.1" to "Tables 5.8" (9 minutes)

URL Health Advocacy and Health Communication for Elderly Health Care Consumers: Rationale, Demand, and Policy Implications

Read the sections on Introduction: Health Advocacy and the Health Care System & Organizations That Promote a Culture of Health Advocacy. (5 minutes)

URL Advocacy Impact Case Studies | The Communication Initiative Network

Read the sections "Introduction: Health Advocacy and the Health Care System" & "Organizations That Promote a Culture of Health Advocacy." (2 minutes)

URL Health promotion, partnership and intersectoral action

Read the Introduction & Partnership, Intersectoral Action, and Determinants of Health sections. (2 minutes)

URL Health promotion, partnership and intersectoral action

Read the sections "The Case for an Intersectoral Partnership Approach" and "Intersectoral Action for Health in Policy Making." (5 minutes)

URL Integrated health promotion strategies: a contribution to tackling current and future health challenges

Read the sections " Effectiveness Of Health Promotion Interventions, Strategies, And Actions" & "Key Lessons About The Effectiveness Of Health Promotion Interventions, Strategies, And Actions". (20 minutes)

URL Community Engagement: A Health Promotion Guide for Universal Health Coverage in the Hands of the People

Read the section "PART III. Community engagement principles, enabling factors and applications" (Pages 11-13). (8 minutes)

URL Community Engagement: A Health Promotion Guide for Universal Health Coverage in the Hands of the People

Read the section "PART V. Examples of community engagement approaches and how health promotion actions are applied: Case studies to illustrate the four approaches." (16 minutes)

Module 5 Designing and Implementing a Health Promotion Project URL Measuring, Monitoring, and Evaluating the Health of a Population

Read "Epidemiology in Building Health Policy." (10 minutes)

URL Evaluating the impact of healthcare interventions using routine data

Read the entire Article. (16 minutes)

URL Community Needs Assessment

Read Sections "1: Overview of Community Needs Assessment (Pages 6-7)" & "2. Section 2: Plan for a Community Needs Assessment" (Pages 12-22). (25 minutes)

URL Best practices--project review process

Read from "Responsibilities" to "Project Status". (13 minutes)

URL Sustainable by design: a systematic review of factors for health promotion program sustainability

Read the discussion section of the article. (6 minutes)

URL Sustainability of public health interventions: where are the gaps?

Read the entire Article. (20 minutes)

URL PHO Webinar: Promoting Health: A (Re)introduction to Program Evaluation (OPTIONAL)

This video describes what evaluation is and teaches recognizing the importance of evaluating health promotion programs. It also gave details on Public Health Ontario's ten steps to evaluating health promotion programs. (59 minutes)

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