Health Promotion Strategies
Course readings and resources
Week 1: Introduction to course
Week 2: Introduction HP practice
Week 3: Introduction to the Intervention Mapping Approach
Roles of values, evidence and theory in HP practice (not covered in 2012)
Week 4: IMA Step 1: Socio-ecological needs assessment
Week 5: IMA Step 2: Preparing matrices of change objectives
Week 6: Individual change strategies (including health education & health communication)
Reading Week: February 20-24
Week 7: Socio-environmental changes strategies: Organizatinal development & change
Week 8: Social-environmental change strategies: Community organization & community building
Week 9: Social-environmental change strategies: Healthy public policy & advocacy
Week 10: IMA Step 3: Selecting theory-informed intervention methods & practical strategies
Week 11: IMA Steps 4: Producing program components & materials
Week 12: IMA Steps 5: Adoption, implmentation & sustainability of HP interventions
Week 13: IMA Step 6: Evaluation in HP practice & course integration

Current week's course 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) recommended 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 am 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 additional 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.      Finally, of course, some links simply “break”!
                                                               iv.      If you experience problems with my URLs, please try to find the article by going directly to the relevant journal and issue through the University of Toronto e-journal library website (http://main.library.utoronto.ca/eir/resources.cfm?T=J .
Michael Goodstadt Ph.D., C.Psych. Director MPH Program in Health Promotion, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada m.goodstadt@utoronto.ca