ABSTRACT

This chapter shows that how health promotion and medical education juxtapose their respective challenges of deciding what is best practice and how resources may be accessed and used to facilitate this. Health promotion resources are frequently considered as leaflets, audiovisual materials, models and teaching packs, but today there is much more. The need to ensure that students and teachers relate to local resources and social context is paramount to enable health promotion to be effective. The quality and value of the site will be part of a shared development process; it will be open and inclusive, with clear criteria for those contributing and clear information for users about resources, research and other materials. Most health promotion resources require similar kinds of interrogation with users, in order that teachers, students and health practitioners can demonstrate how best to use and when not to use them.