[SDOH] Two relevant books on public health and health promotion

Both of the following two books are written by Glenn Laverack. The
promotional notices were published in the social determinants of health
listserv a couple of weeks ago. As these books relate to health promotion,
I'm cross-posting a shortened version to the CLICK4HP list.

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1. HEALTH PROMOTION PRACTICE Power and Empowerment - Sage Publications,
2004 by Glenn Laverack, January 2004 176 pages
see http://www.sagepub.com/author.aspx?aid=527073 for ordering information

In health promotion, the concept of power can be defined as the ability to
create or resist change, and this is an important foundation for
individual and community health. By enabling people to empower themselves,
health promoters can provide the capacity for the individual or community
to change their lives and their living conditions, and therefore their
health.
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.
It also:
* Introduces readers to a 'social' model of health promotion practice, one
that attempts to get at
the underlying social determinants of disease
* Helps readers understand the importance of power relations and their
transformation in this practice
* Introduces readers to a new 'community capacity-building' approach to
plan, implement and
evaluate health promotion programmes.

Intended for students and practitioners of health promotion who want to
help empower the communities that they work with.

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2. Public Health Power, Empowerment and Professional Practice  by Glenn
Laverack
 Palgrave Macmillan. Paperback  May 2005   1403945608 152 Pages
see http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is=1403945608 for
ordering information

Power is a concept central to public health practice. This book addresses
for the first time, and in a practical way, how public health
professionals can help their clients to gain power. It offers sound
theoretical principles and practical solutions for transforming power
relations to improve public health practice. It also introduces readers to
a new methodology to plan, implement and evaluate empowering public health
programmes. Illustrated throughout with international case study examples
to demonstrate principles of an empowering professional practice, this
text will be key reading for today's public health practitioners.


GLENN LAVERACK is Director of Health Promotion at the School of Population
Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
http://www.health.auckland.ac.nz/population-health/social-community/STAFF/glenn%20laverack.htm
He has worked as a Public Health Consultant, and a specialist in health
promotion and community capacity building for over 15 years in countries
as diverse as Ghana, Fiji, Vanuatu, Australia, India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam,
Uzbekistan and Kyrgystan.
His previous publications include Health Promotion: Power and Empowerment
(2004).

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