Correspondence 223 Editorial- Health Education and Health promotion SIR

As pointed out in your recent editorial (1) my contribution to the 1984 'controversy ' defended not health promotion in all its many guises, but rather one particular interpretation of it (2). I was suggesting that there is a model of health promotion (elaborated upon elsewhere (3) which included health education at its best (no doubt of the type of which Gill Williams 'approves'), and where there is little (if any) place for a 'hard sell'. This model has gained a high degree of acceptance in many places, has, I understand, promoted agreement and collaboratio