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Promoting Health and Innovative Health Promotion Practice Through a Community Arts Centre

Arlene J. Carson, PhD, Aud(C)1, Neena L. Chappell, PhD, FRSC2, Carolyn J. Knight3

1 a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Victoria in Victoria, Canada, and researcher and coordinator with the Promoting Action Toward Health (PATH) project in Victoria, British Columbia.
2 a Canada research chair in social gerontology at the Centre on Aging and Department of Sociology, University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia.
3 a community artist in Victoria, Canada, and arts programming coordinator for the Quadra Arts Centre in Victoria, British Columbia.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.


  Abstract

The salubrious effects of participation in and exposure to the arts are well documented. This paper describes the development of a unique arts centre established in a disadvantaged urban school setting as part of a larger community-based health promotion research project. The discussion highlights how community-based arts programming may impact health not only through positive effects on "upstream" non-medical health determinants, particularly aspects of social support, but also through its ability to facilitate the more traditional health-promotion initiatives of the larger parent project. Also discussed is this centre's potential to act as a catalyst to achieve the overarching project goal of enhanced community health by building constitutive capacity around positive aspects of the community, rather than focusing on capacity only as an instrumental resource to solve social or health problems. Greater incorporation of the arts within health-promotion projects offers potential to enhance both health promotion practice and outcomes.

Key Words: health promotion, community-based arts programs, population health, social ecology, community capacity, arts and health

First published on June 30, 2006, doi:10.1177/1524839906289342

Health Promotion Practice 2007;8:366.

A more recent version of this article appeared on October 1, 2007

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