Report on the 2004-5 Ontario Health Promotion Resource System provincial needs assessment : Report on the 2004-2005 Ontario Health Promotion Resource System provincial needs assessment

To date the work of the Committee has included a baseline survey of the capacity of health promoters in Ontario working in Public Health Units and Community Health Centres (Rush and Urbanoski, 2003); a complementary qualitative assessment of health promotion capacity (Rush and Andrew, 2004); as well as feedback from key representatives in the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care in terms of expec [...] The final section of the core questionnaire covered a range of characteristics of the respondent in order to support various sub-analyses of the 2 data (e.g., years of working in health promotion, region, type of organization if applicable).2 The eight supplementary modules to the questionnaire were finalized in close consultation with the OHPRS organizations with the major focus being their indiv [...] In the mailout version of the questionnaire these supplementary modules where separated from the core questionnaire, with the front page of the module printed in a different colour so as to facilitate easy identification in the survey package. [...] Following the pre-test the revised instrument was then converted to the web version and the full system tested by the project team in collaboration with the programmer of the web version. [...] An attempt was made to be inclusive in the language about the intended 4 target group for the survey in order to solicit participation from the wide cross-section of people for whom the comprehensive cross-section of services and supports of the OHPRS organizations are appropriate.