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Article: What's the difference between health promotion and health education?(EDITORIAL)
- Article from:
- Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand
- Article date:
- August 1, 2007
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Much of my international research and writing has championed the cause of health promotion and identified the place and function of it within nursing practice, education and policy.
One of the main reasons for my relocating from the United Kingdom to New Zealand three years ago was the potential of the government's more recent health policy reforms to influence effective health promotion. I have, however, since found out that sometimes more rhetoric than reality accompanies these proposed reforms. I am encouraged, though, by the government's commitment (currently at $2.2 billion) to the 2001 Primary Health Care Strategy. This strategy is the flagship of New ...