- This question stimulated much debate within the Working Group as well as within the various working groups that have operated within the Centre for Health Promotion at the University of Toronto

- Nevertheless, there seemed to be broad agreement that in the field of health promotion, we need to be rather pluralistic, or ecumenical in our views regarding what constitutes "appropriate"evidence for effectiveness

- That is, we need to recognize that "acceptable"`evidence can come from many different sources ranging from highly sophisticated research to personal experience and that we need to consider these various sources in reaching conclusions about what is effective and what is not

- In other words, my impression is that most of the people that we have been working with in this area, would accept a "judicial view of evidence" as recommended by Keith Tones in a recent editorial in the journal of Health Education Research