Dear fellow health promoters,
I am writing today to ask your opinion on a special offer we as members of ISECN have received.
The ISECN has been invited to play a vital role in the future development of one of IUHPE’s cornerstone publications – the RHP&EO, an online journal (www.rhpeo.org). As there recently was a change of Vice President for Communications in the IUHPE, all publications are being reviewed to find the best future development, and this is what is now happening to the RHP&EO. An exciting trial is on the way, and we hope you will play a part in this.
Today the RHP&EO functions as a journal for ‘position papers’, or ‘opinion papers’. The writers mostly are profiled persons from health promotion worldwide. The mission of being a venue for expressing views on health promotion issues will be kept, but the profile of the site will be more including.
This is what we wish for the new Views of Health Promotion Online (a new name option, though nothing has been decided yet):
It is a site for streams of discussion on important health promotion issues
We have up to 5 topics/streams running at the same time
Anybody can suggest a topic, but the Vice President for Communications (Maurice B.Mittelmark) decides which topics will be launched.
Anybody can easily post their view on the topic directly on the website in response forms that accept up to 500 words.
Posts can be a maximum of 500 words, but may be as short as a sentence giving support to another post.
The important thing is to allow for as many health promoters as possible to participate in expressing their views – this is a tool for bottom up communication.
The format allows for comments to other posts.
Posts may be written in any of the three official languages of the IUHPE (English, Spanish, and French).
Some streams may be entirely in for instance French, if they relate to the Francophone community of health promoters.
Each stream of issue will have a manager, who may have to write a short abstract translating some of the posts.
The managers will have to keep a close lookout to identify and remove improper posts. This is a consequence of the open profile, and we will have to make an assessment at a later stage of how this works.
Each manager overlooks the process in one discussion stream, making a decision together with the Vice President for Communication about the right time to close the stream.
After a stream has been closed, the stream manager synthesises the content of the discussion and writes a report.
The reports are presented as important work tools to the Board of Trustees, and are published in the journal Promotion & Education, through mailing lists, and in other appropriate forums.
We, as members of ISECN, are invited to function as stream managers. These positions give you a prime opportunity of developing your career through showing your engagement in a highly visible way. The reports will be published and will be important tools for the Board of Trustees of the IUHPE. We see this as a possibility for many of you, and it is of great importance that some of the stream managers have competency in French or Spanish. Language equity is an important issue.
The process forward is:
-ISECN members give response of their view on this to Torill.Bull@iuh.uib.no, or post comments here in the blog
-The Vice President for Communication brings this suggested development of the RHP&EO to the IUHPE Executive Committee for approval.
-If accepted by the Executive Committee, the new direction will be launched in January 2008.
Is this a challenge we as a network should accept?
Torill Bull
Editorial Assistant RHP&EO
Global Secretary ISECN
Saturday, October 20, 2007
IS THIS A CHALLENGE ISECN SHOULD ACCEPT?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
5 comments:
This looks like an exciting possibility for ISECN members to
become actively engaged in the expression of thoughts, ideas and views by participating in dialogue/debate on important health promotion issues. As an international community, we have a unique opportunity to make an impact, and very importantly the need to support each other in our work. And as pointed out, this proposal will also provide ISECN members with the opportunity of profiling themselves within the wider health promotion field.
I think this is an excellent opportunity that will be well worth ISECN grasping.
Best wishes
Gabrielle
I think this is a great opportunity for us. I am really impressed with how much recognition and support we are getting from IUHPE. Fantastic!
I believe this is good opportunity. I also like to suggest two topics ( My writing needs editing i guess!)
1. Capacity building in health promotion among developing countries for training, research collaboration and leadership in health promotion
2. Political determinants of health
I have covered the first suggestion in my previous comment. About the second topic, I think the role of politics in our lives especially in developing countries have been ignored for a range of reasons including the complexity of the issue.
I have lived in a country which every body have felt to her bones the role of politics (national or international politics) on their lives including their health and happiness. We had 8 years war .I have seen refugees from Iraq and Afghanistan, I also have seen how bad is the health of aboriginals in Australia.
I think in a holistic approach to health promotion we need to see all determinants of health. In a complex world which we live in , we are all connected to each other. So political decisions made in one part of the world can affect the rest of the world, direct or indirect, soon or late. So it is everybody’s responsibility to care about it not only the politicians and economists.
I agree with you wholeheartedly Nastaran. The political determinants of health are equally as important to address as the social and economic determinants. The impact that political regimes and decision-making has on the health of people in many parts of the world today is dramatic. We see this in countries such as USA that belive in fighting wars and exploiting other countries for their own ends; we see it in countries such as yours, in Australia concerning the plight of the Aborigines and in many other countries where people are oppressed and denied basic human rights and freedom; and we see it especially on the African continent where many countries are not only ravaged by internal wars, but are also exploited by many western countries in ways that are only to be ashamed of. I see this issue that you've raised as extremely important, and we need to bring it to light and discuss it and find ways of addressing it. I was wondering whether you have any ideas on how we can go about doing this?
Best wishes
from Gabrielle
Post a Comment