While the CCM has certainly been helpful for a number of centres in various parts of the world, it does not reflect the diversity and complexities of those aspects of prevention and health promotion that go beyond clinical preventive services. As well, the current CCM presents a narrow perspective of the roles that both informal and formal community supports play in improving health. The functions of health promotion and disease/injuy prevention in the community are not explicit in the original CCM. The ways in which the fields of health promotion and healthcare can and do work together need to be reflected.