National policy developments in both the health and education sectors have stimulated an increase in health promotion programmes and infrastructure. The change from "health education" to "health promotion" represents a growth in both theory and practice. "The practice of health promotion requires an integration of existing knowledge from areas such as community development, adult education, health education, public heath, social psychology, medicine, community mental health, political science and social marketing"(Health Promotion Strategy). Therefore there is increasing need to provide the tools to develop effective multi agency and multi professional programmes as well as an understanding of contemporary health promotion.
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