Planning in Dutch health promotion practice: a comprehensive view

Health promotion has a strong tradition of using planning models based on an a priori set of goals and processes defined by professionals. Those rational models only partly fit with today's view and practice of health promotion, where programmes can be considered as processes because they are guided by principles such as community participation and intersectoral collaboration. The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive view on approaches to planning in health promotion practice. To investigate these, Whittington's typology has been used. Whittington identifies four approaches to plann... Mehr ...