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Health promotion practice : power and empowerment /

Placing empowerment at the heart of health promotion practice and offering advice for health promoters who accept the challenge to work in such a way, this book defines key concepts of health, health promotion and community empowerment.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Laverack, Glenn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2004.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Ronald Labonte
  • 1. Health promotion in context
  • 2. Promoting health : it all depends on what we mean by 'health'
  • 3. Power transformation and health promotion practice
  • 4. Community empowerment and health promotion practice
  • 5. Addressing the tensions in health promotion programming
  • 6. 'Parallel-tracking' community empowerment into health promotion programming
  • 7. The domains of community empowerment
  • 8. Building community empowerment approaches in health promotion
  • 9. Evaluating community empowerment approaches
  • 10. Implications for an empowering health promotion practice.