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Towards the development of skills-based health promotion competencies: the Canadian experience

Brian Hyndman

The Alder Group, and Fellow, Centre for Health Promotion, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, b.hyndman{at}utoronto.ca

The health promotion competencies presented in the Galway Consensus Conference Statement build on an emerging international literature that includes a proposed set of Canadian competencies developed for health promotion practitioners. In Canada, the creation of draft health promotion competencies by Health Promotion Ontario (HPO) was fueled by increased concerns about the potential marginalization of health promotion as well as a national public health renewal process that placed increased emphasis on competency development as a means of strengthening the public health workforce. This commentary presents the proposed Canadian competencies and provides an overview of the process utilized to develop them. Key similarities and differences between the proposed Canadian competencies and the competencies outlined in the Consensus Statement are also explored. The Canadian experience illustrates the way in which national health promotion competencies can be shaped by cultural and political factors unique to a specific jurisdiction.

Key Words: Canada • Consensus Conference • health promotion competencies

This version was published on June 1, 2009

Global Health Promotion, Vol. 16, No. 2, 51-55 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1757975909104105
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