Health promotion practice : power and empowerment / Glenn Laverack.

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Laverack, Glenn

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text

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computer

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online resource

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9781446264225
144626422X
9780761941798
0761941797
1283880164
9781283880169
1446231011
9781446231012

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Health promotion practice.DDC classification:

613 22

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RA427.8 .L38 2009eb

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Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Boxes; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; An Overview of the Book; Chapter 1 -- Health Promotion in Context; Chapter 2 -- Promoting Health: It All Depends on What We Mean by 'Health'; Chapter 3 -- Power Transformation and Health Promotion Practice; Chapter 4 -- Community Empowerment and Health Promotion Practice; Chapter 5 -- Addressing the Tensions in Health Promotion Programming; Chapter 6 -- 'Parallel-Tracking' Community Empowerment into Health Promotion Programming; Chapter 7 -- The Domains of Community Empowerment.

Chapter 8 -- Building Community Empowerment Approaches in Health PromotionChapter 9 -- Evaluating Community Empowerment Approaches; Chapter 10 -- Implications for an Empowering Health Promotion Practice; Bibliography; Index.

Summary: Health Promotion Practice explores the issue of how such an approach to health promotion practice can improve a community's success towards achieving healthier conditions through its own actions. 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, Health Promotion Practice defines key concepts of health, health promotion and community empowerment.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-153) and index.

Health Promotion Practice explores the issue of how such an approach to health promotion practice can improve a community's success towards achieving healthier conditions through its own actions. 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, Health Promotion Practice defines key concepts of health, health promotion and community empowerment.

English.

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