ABSTRACT
This chapter provides health promotion practitioners with experience at local and national level who are concerned with involving people in activity to promote health and the Health for All movement. It explains a rationale for the importance of research and evaluation to complement a participatory and community development philosophy and methodology. The community health movement in the United Kingdom (UK) which encompasses participatory approaches, has a vibrant history of twenty years or more. Community participation is integral to Health for All vision and strategy. Community development is a process whereby communities are empowered and enabled to express their health needs. In 1988, the Health Education Authority (HEA) established a new division: Professional and Community Development (PCD). The evaluation team based at Keele University are an integral part of the project and have developed close working relationships with project facilitators, project managers, the three project co-ordinators and the HEA staff.
