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Theoretical issues in intersectoral collaboration

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Health Promotion

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Health promoters have long recognised the importance of working together. The logic is indisputable: if health is more than the absence or treatment of disease, then its promotion and maintenance lie beyond the remit of any one professional group or sector. Intersec-toral Collaboration has thus become a familiar term in health promotion. It is for the World Health Organisation (WHO) a key principle and central to achieving the goal of Health for All by the year 2000 (World Health Organisation, 1984, 1985). ‘Local Healthy Cities’ and ‘Health for All’ (HFA) projects have proliferated, following the WHO’s lead (Ashton, 1992; Tsouros, 1991). These are by definition intersectoral, resting on and generating collaboration at practice and policy levels. An ultimate goal is to develop ‘healthy public policy’ (World Health Organisation, 1986; Evers et al., 1990).

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  1. Bath College of Health Education, UK

    Angela Scriven (Course Director for the MSc in Health Promotion and Subject Leader for Health Studies and Health Education) (Course Director for the MSc in Health Promotion and Subject Leader for Health Studies and Health Education)

  2. University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

    Judy Orme (Senior Lecturer in Health Promotion) (Senior Lecturer in Health Promotion)

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Delaney, F. (1996). Theoretical issues in intersectoral collaboration. In: Scriven, A., Orme, J. (eds) Health Promotion. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24580-2_3

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