Heatlh Promotion Strategies
Taking a Best Practices Approach
Course schedule
Course goal & objectives
Course guiding framework
Course expectations
Required and recommended textbooks

Required and recommended textbooks

Required textbooks
  1. Bartholomew, L. K., Parcel, G. S., Kok, G., & Gottlieb, N. H. (2006). Planning health promotion programs: An Intervention mapping approach (2nd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. (Approximately $95.00). (10+ chapters will be assigned)
  2. Glanz, K., Rimer, B. K., & Viswanath, K. (Eds.). (2008). Health behavior and health education: Theory, research and practice (4th ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. (Approximately $77.00). (Nearly all chapters will be assigned)
  1. DiClemente, R. J., Crosby, R. A., & Kegler, M. C. (Eds.). (2002). Emerging theories in health promotion practice and research. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass (Approximately 10 chapters will be recommended—they were assigned in previous years) (Approximately $77.00)
  2. Nutbeam, D., & Harris, E. (2004). Theory in a nutshell: A practical guide to health promotion theories (2nd ed.). Sydney, Australia: McGraw-Hill. (Approximately $30.00) (Wonderful pocket-size summary of theories relevant to health promotion practice)
These are available in electronic form by accessing the relevant journals at the University of Toronto Library Electronic Resources (“Electronic Journals and Preprints”) at: http://www.library.utoronto.ca/resources/index.html
Introductory health promotion textbook (for those who are not at all familiar with health promotion, or for those who want easily accessible health promotion sources)
Naidoo, J., & Wills, J. (2000). Health Promotion: Foundations for Practice. 2nd edition. Toronto: Bailliere Tindall (Harcourt Brace & Co.) (Approximately $65.00)
Michael Goodstadt Ph.D., C.Pych. Director, MHSc Program in Health Promotion, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada. m.goodstadt@utoronto.ca