[Re: https://www.hifa.org/dgroups-rss/when-health-promotion-stagnates-or-decl... ]
Dear Dr. Uzodinma Adirieje (AHOA),
Thank you for your detailed message! I fully agree!
Correct me if I am wrong. I think that your mesage emphasizes that health promotion — empowering people to take control of their health — is essential to modern public health but often stagnates due to weak policy commitment, underfunding, fragmented systems, emergencies, cultural resistance, and corporate influence. The resulting decline worsens preventable disease burdens, widens inequalities, and undermines community trust. To revitalize progress, he calls for strong political will, sustainable financing, cross-sector partnerships, technology use, community engagement, and regulation of harmful commercial practices. His work through AHOA integrates health, environment, and sustainable development, advancing biodiversity conservation as a foundation for public health resilience in Africa and the Global South.
If you want I can share a model for remote, underserved, and difficult to serve regions for people to track their own health concerns in detail and there is a complimentary model for them to share with their care providers. The model permits 360 degree assessment of any interventions for any problems.
Let me know (personally) and I will share the links also if let me know HIFA is interested to disseminate this model.
This model was featured in the WPA Child and Adolescent (C&A) Section's publication last January.
I am working with that section and IACAPAP to develop a global C&A training curriculum for psychiatry and allied professionals.
Based on over 23 years of clinical data, the model was recently generalized to track any interventions any condition against the background of lifespan multimorbidity, current life events, current social supports, and concurrent disease or disorders.
After that article, we posted the self-monitoring and clinical monitoring documents for free for a period of a month or so.
I am sure we could arrange something similar.
The model may also be applied in the context of exposure to population or community-based promotion and prevention efforts.
Best,
Prof. David Cawthorpe
HIFA Profile: David Cawthorpe is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary, Canada. His professional interests include: Human Development, Developmental Psychopathology, and Delivery of low bandwidth medical education curriculum. cawthord AT ucalgary.ca