Health promotion practice: building empowered communities

"Power and empowerment are two complex concepts that are central to health promotion practice. People experience empowerment in many different ways and this book explains an approach that has been used by health promoters to intentionally build and evaluate empowerment. The book provides a spec...

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1. Verfasser: Laverack, Glenn 1960- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Maidenhead [u.a.] McGraw Hill Open Univ. Press 2007
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Zusammenfassung:"Power and empowerment are two complex concepts that are central to health promotion practice. People experience empowerment in many different ways and this book explains an approach that has been used by health promoters to intentionally build and evaluate empowerment. The book provides a special focus on communities and is illustrated throughout with useful field experiences in the United Kingdom, Asia, North America, the Pacific region and Africa. The book aims to provide the reader with: An understanding of the key concepts of power and empowerment and the link to improved health outcomes in the context of health promotion programmes; An understanding of practical approaches that can be used in health promotion programming to build and evaluate empowered communities; Case study examples of how communities can be empowered in practice". -- Publisher's website.
Beschreibung:XI, 156 S. graph. Darst.
ISBN:0335220576
9780335220571
0335220584
9780335220588

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