Welcome to the website that takes you systematically through the weekly content of our Health Promotion Strategies course, and provides an extensive set of recommended readings related to the content of our weekly classes.
NOTES REGARDING WEEKLY READINGS
1. Textbooks: ALL students are expected to be familiar with the required readings from the course textbooks
2. Recommended journal articles
a. Students are strongly (strongly) encouraged to read the required and recommended journal articles. However, I acknowledge that I have identified a large number of required and/or recommended journal articles. I also recognize that students’ schedules and other pressures might not allow time to read all the articles. Nevertheless, I do not apologize for providing such extensive reading lists:
i. experience has shown that the reading lists provide a very useful resource for our graduates as they enter health promotion practice
ii. the reading lists provide a comprehensive “map” of developments in the rapidly developing fields of health promotion practice and research
iii. the reading lists provide both structure and substance on the basis of which students will be able to develop a coherent, comprehensive, and persuasive “case” regarding health promotion practice and research.
b. Recognizing that students might be unable to complete all the recommended readings each week, I have occasionally indicated those that I consider “priority articles”; students are expected to be familiar with these readings for each class. Group responsibility procedures will be developed to ensure that all students are familiar with the content and relevance of these readings.
c. All required and recommended journal articles are available in electronic form by accessing the relevant journals by means of the URL associated with each article—you will need to be logged into the University of Toronto Portal to access these URLs.
Unfortunately, the world is not yet technically perfect, hence:
i. The URLs only provide access to University of Toronto libraries to those with authorization (e.g., U of Toronto students, etc.)
ii. I have attempted to provide permanent URLs; however, these are not available for all journals, and are sometimes not available for the most recent issues of journals
iii. Many times, the URL link will take you to a page which contains an abstract AND a link to the “Full PDF” version of the journal article—navigate from here to the PDF version!
iv. Finally, of course, some links simply “break”!
v. If you experience problems with my URLs, please try to find the article by going directly to the relevant journal through the University of Toronto e-journal library which you can access at http://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/
