Public Health. Power, Empowerment and Professional Practice (Glenn Laverack)
ISBN: 1-4039-4560-8.

This book is intended to follow-on from the previous publication entitled
Health Promotion Practice: Power & Empowerment (2004). 
It addresses, for the first time in such a practical way, how public health
professionals can help their clients to gain power. It offers sound
principles and practical solutions for transforming power relations to
improve practice. Illustrated throughout with case study examples to
demonstrate principles of an empowering professional practice, the book
provides:

.	an understanding of the concepts of power and empowerment
.	practical approaches for helping individuals, groups and communities
to gain power
.	a means to measure and visually represent empowerment.

Whether you want to become a more effective communicator, foster empowering
professional-client relationships, or increase the self-awareness of your
clients, this highly practical book will help you realise your professional
goals.

The author.
Glenn Laverack is Director in Health Promotion at the Department of Social
and Community Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand. 

Public Health: Power, Empowerment and Professional Practice is available in
bookstores or from the publishers:

Palgrave Macmillan (www.palgrave.com).

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