I've added a little more information available from the distributor about
this book by Glenn Laverack (director of health promotion, school of
population health, University of Auckland, New Zealand) that was released
in 2004 in hardcover and softcover by Sage Publications in the UK
(information below). Dennis Raphael points out that it is now readily
accessible through Amazon.ca
The table of contents is further down.

Glenn Laverack has a new book out on "Public Health Power, Empowerment and
Professional Practice" from Palgrave MacMillan. For more information see:
http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is=1403945608

"This book addresses ... 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."

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Subject: New Canadian Health Promotion Book
From:    Dennis Raphael
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Health Promotion Practice, by Glenn Laverack
trade paperback version available through Amazon.ca

http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0761941800/ref=pd_sim_dp_3/701-2640246-2646731

Or get it from Sage Publications:
Publisher: Sage Publications
Cost: Paperback - £18.99 / Hardcover - £50.00
Date of publication: January 2004
Number of pages: 176
Contact:
SAGE Publications Ltd
6 Bonhill Street
London, EC2A 4PU, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7374 0645
Fax: +44 (0)20 7374 8741
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http://www.sagepub.co.uk/

    Table of Contents
Health Promotion in Context
Promoting Health
It all Depends on What We Mean by 'Health'
Power Transformation and Health Promotion Practice
Community Empowerment and Health Promotion Practice
Addressing the Tensions in Health Promotion Programming
'Parallel-Tracking' Community Empowerment into Health Promotion Programming
The Domains of Community Empowerment
Building Community Empowerment Approaches in Health Promotion
Evaluating Community Empowerment Building Approaches
Implications for an Empowering Health Promotion Practice

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