Breslow, L. (1998). Musings on sixty years in public health. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PUBLIC HEALTH 19: 1-15.
    http://publhealth.annualreviews.org/cgi/content/abstract/19/1/1

Fielding, J.E. (1999). Public health in the twentieth century: Advances and challenges. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PUBLIC HEALTH 20: XIII-XXX.
    ABSTRACT: Substantial advances in public health methods, practice, and the health of the public have occurred in the twentieth century. Some of the contributions most notable for their impact on mortality and longevity are vaccine development and widespread use, smallpox eradication, large reductions in communicable disease epidemics, and the rise and decline of several serious chronic diseases. Many methodological advances have facilitated better understanding of disease processes and opportunities for control. Epidemiological methods have advanced, but studies often ignore the determinants of health at the community level and above, leading to simplistic formulations of multiple risk factors contributing to chronic and other diseases and injuries. Occupational and environmental health developed as disciplines in this century, making significant contributions to current and future population health. The health care system became more organized, technologically sophisticated, and costly. New tools to assess health and the burden of ill health, to improve the effectiveness of interventions, and to measure economic effects of alternative investments promise greater efficiency and effectiveness for public health. An increasingly fragmented public health infrastructure must confront unprecedented challenges including dramatic global population growth, increased aging of the population associated with enhanced longevity, and possible irreversible changes in key environmental health determinants.

Geronimus, A. T., & Bound, J.   (1998).  Use of Census-based Aggregate Variables to Proxy for Socioeconomic Group: Evidence from National Samples.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY 148(5):  475-486.

Green J., & Tones, K. (1999). For debate. Towards a secure evidence base for health promotion. JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH MEDICINE 21(2): 133-139.
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Green, L.W. (1999). Health education's contributions to public health in the twentieth century: A glimpse through health promotion's rear-view mirror. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PUBLIC HEALTH 20: 67-88.
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Moyer, A., Coristine, M., MacLean, L., & Meyer, M. (1999). A model for building collective capacity in community-based programs: The Elderly In Need Project. PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING 16 (3): 205-214.
    ABSTRACT: As the focus of health promotion moves from individuals to organizations, communities and broader social policy, the models that guide public health program planning and development need reexamination. Public health nurses are gaining experience in strengthening and supporting the ability of communities to grow and change. This study aimed to illuminate the process. Data, gathered as part of an action research project to develop individual and community-based strategies to decrease isolation in frail older adults, provided a rich source of qualitative data. Analysis was directed toward identifying the factors and processes of capacity-building. The emerging model was clarified and partially validated with academics and practitioners from health promotion programs across the age span. Four stages of building collective capacity were identified: identifying common ground, working cooperatively, working in partnership, and working across the community. At each stage, processes of relationship building, project management and capacity-building resulted in stage specific products. A model of building collective capacity, grounded in community health practice and supported by the Literature provides a base for developing practice indicators, and practice guidelines which will strengthen the ability to reach health goals.

Ostrom, E. (1999). Coping with tragedies of the commons. ANNUAL REVIEW OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 2: 493-535.
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Richard, L., Breton, E.R., Lehoux, P., Martin, C., & Roy, D. (1999). How public health professions perceive two dimensions for promoting health: Ecological approach and participatory approach. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH-REVUE CANADIENNE DE SANTE PUBLIQUE 90 (2): 99-103.
    ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper is to explore public health professionals' perceptions regarding two dimensions of the new health promotion movement; the ecological approach and the principle of community participation. Data were collected by focus-groups of public health professionals (n = 22) in one Public Health Directorate in Quebec. Results indicate a fair degree of integration of these two dimensions into the respondents' professional practice. However, limitations related to the work environment and to the theoretical underpinnings of these two components might impede the respondents' ability to integrate them into their practice.

Tannahill, A. (1998). Commentary. The Scottish green paper: beyond a healthy mind in a healthy body.  JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH MEDICINE 20 (3): 249-252, September.
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    Book References

Keyser, Morrow, Doyle, Ogletree, Parsons (1998). Practicing the Application of Health Education Skills and Competencies. Boston: Jones & Bartlett. $19.25   
    Written for the teacher who is training health education professionals, this book systematically addresses each of the responsibilities and competencies that have been identified by the health education profession as necessary for entry-level health education. The seven chapters correspond to the seven responsibilities of a health educator as put forth by the National Task Force on the Preparations and Practice of Health Educators. To read more about this title, and to place your order, please go to http://catalog.jbpub.com/detail.cfm?i=0533-0  

Shah, C. P. (1998). Public Health and Preventive Medicine in Canada, 4^th edition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-9694044-3-3.
    "...the best known Canadian textbook of public health...has two purposes...to help readers learn about their role as health care professionals, administrators or policy makers within the health care system...[and to participate] in the ongoing debate on health care issues..." --Review by Clyde Hertzman, Chronic Disease in Canada 20(1), 1999, 41-42.  For the complete review, go to: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/main/lcdc/web/publicat/cdic/cdic201/cd201g_e.html.

Timmreck, T. C. (1998). Health Services Cyclopedic Dictionary, Third Edition (Boston: Jones & Bartlett). $70.
    The most comprehensive dictionary on the full range of health services. Exhaustive listings on public health, health administration, epidemiology, health administration, health promotion, managed care, and other areas of health service provide accurate, detailed definitions. To read more about this title, and to place your order, please go to http://catalog.jbpub.com/detail.cfm?i=515-6  

Wallace, Robert; & Wallace, D. (1999). A Plague on Your Houses: How New York Was Burned Down and National Public Health Crumbled. New York & London: Verso Press. 
    During the 1970's, poor neighborhoods in the old industrial cities suffered massive housing destruction. These cities lost much population to the suburbs and to boomtowns in the West and South. "A Plague on Your Houses" provides the details of how public policies such as benign neglect and planned shrinkage destroyed poor minority neighborhoods in New York City both physically and socially. The authors suggest that the Rand Corporation provided substandard mathematical models that blamed the closing of fire companies for the fire epidemics, but they argue that this was only at best a symptom of the broader policies antagonistic to inner-city development.
    Mass migrations, shifting patterns of housing overcrowding, and loss of social control and support unleashed a crisis in public health and public order. Infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, measles, and AIDS flared up; contagious behaviors such as violence, substance abuse, and multiple-partner sexual activity also became epidemic. Even the life expectancy of elderly African-Americans was affected and declined between 1970 and 1980 after decades of increase.
    Most of the city was touched by one or more of the consequences of the disaster. The contagious diseases and behaviors gradually spilled over into the suburban counties of the New York City metro region (24 counties). Eventually, the abused big metro regions (New York, Los Angeles, Miami) entrained the whole national network of metro regions into epidemics of violent crime and AIDS.

SUPPLEMENTARY WEBSITES

Documents on Population Health (available on-line): The following Health Canada publications (1) Taking Action on Population Health position paper and (2) Population Health - Putting Concepts Into Action (WHO, 50th anniversary) can be accessed at: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/phdd/resource.htm.

This pamphlet collection, one of the largest of its type in the world, documents the shaping of modern public health and activities to avoid disease and other health threats. They are evidence for the prevailing medical concepts and social attitudes, the effects of disease and sanitary conditions on society, and changing mores and customs in the United States.

Alphabetical Listing of Internet Resources for Health Promotion Planning, Implementation and Evaluation

American Public Health Association http://www.apha.org