Building Health Promotion Capacity explores the professional practice of health promotion, and the ways individuals and organizations become more effective in supporting and undertaking such practice. The concepts of 'capacity' and 'capacity-building' are used to structure this exploration. Capacity refers to those qualities or characteristics that enable people to do something. The book is based on the Building Health Promotion Capacity Project (1998-2003), which was designed to study the process of capacity development through taking action to enhance health promotion capacity in Saskatchewan. For health promotion practitioners, this book provides a coherent framework for effective professional practice in the field. Leaders in health sector organizations will acquire a greater understanding of how to support health promotion practice and of how to recruit and develop individual practitioners. Policy makers will learn characteristics of environments that are supportive of the health
