title: Professional development programs in health promotion: tools and processes to favor new practices.
abstract: Developing innovative interventions that are in sync with a health promotion paradigm often represents a challenge for professionals working in local public health organizations. Thus, it is critical to have both professional development programs that favor new practices and tools to examine these practices. In this case study, we analyze the health promotion approach used in a pilot intervention addressing children's vulnerability that was developed and carried out by participants enrolled in a public health professional development program. More specifically, we use a modified version of Guichard and Ridde's (Une grille d'analyse des actions pour lutter contre les inégalités sociales de santé. In Potvin, L., Moquet, M.-J. and Jones, C. M. (eds), Réduire les Inégalités Sociales en Santé. INPES, Saint-Denis Cedex, pp. 297-312, 2010) analytical grid to assess deductively the program participants' use of health promotion practices in the analysis and planning, implementation, evaluation, sustainability and empowerment phases of the pilot intervention. We also seek evidence of practices involving (empowerment, participation, equity, holism, an ecological approach, intersectorality and sustainability) in the intervention. The results are mixed: our findings reveal evidence of the application of several dimensions of health promotion (equity, holism, an ecological approach, intersectorality and sustainability), but also a lack of integration of two key dimensions; that is, empowerment and participation, during various phases of the pilot intervention. These results show that the professional development program is associated with the adoption of a pilot intervention integrating multiple but not all dimensions of health promotion. We make recommendations to facilitate a more complete integration. This research also shows that the Guichard and Ridde grid proves to be a thorough instrument to document the practices of participants.
authors.affiliation: Institut de recherche en santé publique de l'Université de Montréal (IRSPUM), Pavillon 7101 avenue du Parc, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC H3C 3J7, Canada.|School of Social Work, Dalhousie University, 3233-1459 LeMarchant Street, P.O. Box 15000, Halifax NS B3H 4R2, Canada.
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Torres
authors.affiliation: Institut de recherche en santé publique de l'Université de Montréal (IRSPUM), Pavillon 7101 avenue du Parc, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC H3C 3J7, Canada.|Faculty of Nursing, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, QC H3C 3J7, Canada.
authors.forename: Lucie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Richard
authors.affiliation: Faculté des Sciences Infirmières, Université Laval, Pavillon Ferdinand-Vandry, Local 3465, 1050, ave de la Médecine, Québec, QCG1V 0A6, Canada.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Guichard
authors.affiliation: Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, 55, av. Laurier Est, Ottawa, ONK1N 6N5, Canada.
authors.forename: François
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Chiocchio
authors.affiliation: Montreal Public Health Department, 1301 rue Sherbrooke Est, Montréal, QC, H2L 1M3, Canada.
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Litvak
authors.affiliation: Montreal Public Health Department, 1301 rue Sherbrooke Est, Montréal, QC, H2L 1M3, Canada.|École de santé publique Université de Montréal 7101, avenue du Parc, Local 3014-8 Montréal, QC H3N 1X9 Canada.
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Beaudet
mesh_terms: D000069576:Health Equity; D006293:Health Promotion; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D000068101:Maternal-Child Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011209:Power, Psychological; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods*; D011792:Quebec; D013192:Staff Development / Q000458:organization & administration*
keywords: community-based intervention; evaluating health promotion; health promotion programs; training