caa a22 4500 397547625 CHVBK 20180308164742.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199609 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/heapro/11.3.237 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/heapro/11.3.237 POLAND BLAKE D. Department of Behavioural Science, University of Toronto and Addiction Research Foundation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Knowledge development and evaluation in, of and for Healthy Community initiatives. Part I: guiding principles [Elektronische Daten] [BLAKE D. POLAND] With over 375 participating communities worldwide, well-established networks in many parts of Europe, North America and Australia, and with initiatives in many developing countries, the Healthy Cities movement is widespread and, in many jurisdictions, continuing to expand. As the movement matures, interest in the evaluation of its successes and potential limitations has grown. But as yet there has been little systematic assessment of evaluation strategies for Healthy Communities (HC). In this paper, a number of principles are advanced as being fundamental underpinnings for knowledge development and evaluation in, of and for HC initiatives. It is argued that a participatory action research approach is called for, but also one that includes a critical social science perspective on health, as part of attempts at the local level to define appropriate conceptual models of HC practice from which to ground knowledge development and evaluation efforts. It is argued that one should pay close attention to the theoretical, ethical and political issues that attend the evaluation of HC initiatives, since ‘evaluation' has become a politically and ideologically charged issue. In a subsequent paper (Part II, to be published in Vol. 11, No. 4), a number of substantive foci are reviewed as potential bases for evaluation within the parameters of the principles and methodology described in Part I. © Oxford University Press Perspectives nationallicence evaluation nationallicence healthy community nationallicence health promotion nationallicence Health Promotion International Oxford University Press 11/3(1996-09), 237-247 0957-4824 11:3<237 1996 11 heapro https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/11.3.237 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/11.3.237 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- POLAND BLAKE D. Department of Behavioural Science, University of Toronto and Addiction Research Foundation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Health Promotion International Oxford University Press 11/3(1996-09), 237-247 0957-4824 11:3<237 1996 11 heapro Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 397547625 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford