Results of a five-year evaluation plan

The major change occurred in 2005 with the creation of the Ministry of Health Promotion to which the funding portfolio for the resource system shifted from the MOHLTC. [...] For the health promoters the expectation was that the services and supports delivered by the OHPRS network would increase the capacity of health promoters in a variety of areas and, in turn, influence the quality and comprehensiveness of health promotion interventions in the community (e.g., the mix of individual, environmental and policy options). [...] These distinctions between the level of joint planning and engagement of the various resource centres became particularly important in the interpretation of the results of the main components of the evaluation plan. [...] The expected outcomes of the work in support of the MHP include improved cost- efficiencies within the system, increased confidence (within the Ministry) in the ultimate link to health outcomes, and better promotion/retention of value of health promotion. [...] In this context, efforts to move the network to more “systemness” are largely voluntary, with the support of the Secretariat and, indirectly, the MHP as the funder of the Secretariat and its functions.