1. HEALTH PROMOTION PRACTICE: Power and Empowerment
Power and Empowerment
 Sage Publications
Glenn Laverack, 2004

2. PUBLIC HEALTH: Power, Empowerment and Professional Practice
Palgrave Macmillan
Glenn Laverack, May 2005

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1. HEALTH PROMOTION PRACTICE
Power and Empowerment - Sage Publications
Glenn Laverack
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.
Health Promotion Practice will be an invaluable resource to students and
practitioners of health
promotion who want to help empower the communities that they work with.

GLENN LAVERACK is Director of Health Promotion at the School of Population
Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand. 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).

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
January 2004 · 176 pages
Cloth (0-7619-4179-7) Price £50.00
Paper (0-7619-4180-0) Price £16.99

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2. Public Health
Power, Empowerment and Professional Practice
Glenn Laverack
 Paperback
 May 2005   1403945608
 152 Pages   £17.99

 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 lively
text will be key reading for today's public health practitioners.

Contents List of Figures, Tables and Boxes
Acknowledgements
Preface
An Overview of the Book
Power and Public Health Practice
Public Health in Context
Power and Empowerment
Helping Individuals to Gain Power
Helping Groups and Communities to Gain Power
Helping Marginalised Groups to Gain Power
The Measurement and Visual Representation of Empowerment
Power and Professional Practice
References
Index
Author Biographies

GLENN LAVERACK is Director of Health Promotion at the School of Population
Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand. 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).