HEALTH PROMOTION PRACTICE: BUILDING EMPOWERED COMMUNITIES.

Author: Dr. Glenn Laverack. University of Auckland, New Zealand 

Publisher. Open University Press. Early 2007.

*How can health promotion practitioners help communities to become more
empowered? 
*How can practitioners encourage different communities to work together
towards shared goals? 
*How can practitioners better focus resources to be most effective in
helping to build empowered communities? 
*How do you evaluate your success (and failures) in helping to build
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 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. 

This unique book offers sound theoretical principles to underpin the
practical approaches used to build empowered communities and brings
together new and innovative approaches in health promotion practice. 

This book is essential reading for health promotion students and
practitioners who want to learn more about innovative approaches to
build empowered communities in their everyday work. It will inspire them
to work in more empowering ways in health promotion practice and to
carefully contemplate how they can influence the way others gain power. 

Contents: 
Preface
An overview of the book
Health promotion practice
Communities and community based interaction 
Health and empowerment 
Empowerment & health promotion programming 
'Unpacking' community empowerment for strategic planning 
Evaluating community empowerment 
Empowerment in action: An issues based approach 
Empowerment in action: A community-based approach 
Building empowered communities in health promotion Practice 
Index 
Bibliography 


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