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Health Promotion Essentials

Methods
Published: April 2024

This resource is a part of the Health Promotion Essentials online course. It describes the
methods used to inform its development. For more information, please contact Public Health
Ontario’s Health Promotion, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention department (HPCDIP) at
[email protected] or visit publichealthontario.ca.

Summary of the methods used in the course


A number of approaches informed the development of the Health Promotion Essentials online course.
These methods ensure that the course content is based on current needs of the health promotion field
as well as best available evidence, including community and expert knowledge. Methods included:

• Needs assessment: We conducted key informant interviews with managers and directors in public
and community health to assess the need for an introductory health promotion course. Key
informants indicated that such as course will provide training for health promoters as well as
people who work alongside health promoters. We also conducted an environmental scan to be
certain that an introductory course did not already exist. We did not find an existing, free and
open-access introduction to health promotion course.

• Engagement: We established a Health Promotion Foundations Course Advisory Committee (HPFC-


AC) to inform the identification of course audiences and develpoment of goals, learning objectives,
and table of contents. Members of the HPFC-AC included health promoters from public health units
and community health agencies as well as representatives of the National Collaborating Centre for
Indigenous Health and the National Collaborating Centre for the Determinants of Health.

• Literature searches: We conducted several literature searches to identify and describe:

• the evolution and development of health promotion, including the development, criticisms,
implementation and effectiveness of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion;
• the current state of health promotion;
• future trends for the field of health promotion.
Search strategies were developed by Public Health Ontario Library Services, and included published
literature databases (MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Embase, and Scopus) and grey literature. We
also hand searched the last three years of four health promotion journals (Health Promotion
International, American Journal of Health Promotion, Health Promotion Practice, Global Health
Promotion) and the Canadian Journal of Public Health.

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Papers identified through the search strategies were screened by two authors using inclusion and
exclusion criteria specific to the research question for each set of search results. Key informants
and the HPFC-AC identified additional resources. Data extraction was completed independently by
two authors using extraction categories specific to each research question. Data extraction tables
were verified by one author.

• Additional analysis: Two topics in the course required additional analysis. To identify the gaps
between theory and implementation presented in Module 5 we conducted a thematic analyses
according to the six steps outline by Braun & Clark 2006.1 We also conducted a systematic
review to identify the values that ground health promotion. We followed the process described
above, appraised the quality of the identified papers, and applied the thematic analysis steps by
Braun & Clark.

• Internal and external engagement: A number of PHO staff, HPFC-AC members and additional
partners reviewed the draft course and provided insightful and helpful direction. Ten (10) people,
representing public health, community health, and community members from across the province,
pilot tested the course.

Acknowledgements
There are many people who contributed to the development of this course.
Public Heath Ontario (PHO) would like to acknowledge the PHO staff involved in this project: Andrea
Bodkin, Jenny Bui, Taheera Walji, Kara Watson, and Daniel Harrington from Health Promotion, Chronic
Disease and Injury Prevention; Dan Johnson, Jaclyn Islen, Monica Nunes, Jamie Park, Courtney Ryan,
Steven Janovsky, Desmond Blackman and the entire Library Services team from Knowledge Exchange.

Thank you to the many experts who reviewed the content for the course. Their thoughtfulness and
expertise shaped the course content:

• Dianne Oickle, National Collaborative Centre for Determinants of Health


• Elaine Fisher, Health Promoter, Northwestern Health Unit
• Gideon Quaison, Educator and Community Organizer
• Jessica Lefebvre, Health Promotion Specialist, Eastern Ontario Health Unit
• Lisa Murdock, Research Associate, National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health
• Nicole Ethier, Program Coordinator- Foundational Standards, Porcupine Health Unit
• Saralyn Semekiuk, Health Promoter, Northwestern Health Unit
• Samiya Abdi, Executive Director, Black Health Education Collaborative
• Taheera Walji, Senior Program Specialist -Health Equity, Public Health Ontario

Thank you to the Indigenous Primary Health Care Council (IPHCC) for contributing two videos to the course,
and to the Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre for contributing a case study about their work.
PHO acknowledges the former Ontario Health Promotion Resource System (OHPRS) and its then 22 member
organizations who collaboratively developed the "Health Promotion 101" online course in 2004. The course
was later integrated into PHO operations and re-launched as the “Health Promotion Foundations Online

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Course” in 2015. These two courses were the inspiration for the Health Promotion Essentials Online Course
and we would like to thank the many people and many organizations involved for their work.

If you would like more information about the search strategies or methods used to create this content,
you can request them from the Health Promotion, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention department at
Public Health Ontario by emailing [email protected].

References
1. Amaia B, Santiago E, Unai M, Jon Z. Learning lessons from past mistakes: how can Health in All
Policies fulfil its promises? J Epidemiol Community Health. 2010;64(6):504. Available from:
https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.2010.110437

Public Health Ontario


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the health of all Ontarians and reducing inequities in health. Public Health Ontario links public health
practitioners, front-line health workers and researchers to the best scientific intelligence and knowledge
from around the world.

For more information about PHO, visit publichealthontario.ca.

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