I find this review to be very simplistic and naive. It should be pulled of the web and rewritten by a cultural ecologist specializing in health promotion. I direct the reader to the following sources:

Green L. L Richard, L Potvin. Ecological foundations of health promotion. Amer J of Health Promotion. 1996 March/April 10, (4): 271-281.

McElroy, KR, D Bibeau, A Steckler, K Glanz. An ecological perspective on health promotion program. Health Ed Q 1988 15(4):351-377.

The Social Ecology of Health Promotion: Implications for Research and Practice Daniel Stokols, Judd Allen, and Richard L. Bellingham. Introductory article published in a special issue of the American Journal of Health Promotion featuring "Social Ecological Perspectives on Health Promotion", 1996, Volume 10, pp. 247-251.

I am more than happy to arrange to have this section rewritten. I am a medical anthropologist that employs a cultural ecological perspective in my health promotion work internationally.

Allison Bingham, Ph.D.
PATH
abingha@path.org