From rhetoric to reality: moving hospitals into health promotion.
Health promotion has received a lot of attention over the past several decades as an important means of improving the health of Canadians and reducing the costs of health service delivery. How do hospitals reorient themselves to a greater role in health promotion? Is hospital-based community health promotion viable? This article describes the process undertaken by Seven Oaks General Hospital as it moved aggressively into this field.
Searle
M S
MS
University of Manitoba, Health, Leisure & Human Performance Research Institute.
Boreskie
S
S
Lamont
D
D
D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003625:Data Collection; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008350:Manitoba; D008389:Marketing of Health Services; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods