Health Promotion Practice: Building Empowered Communities: Building Empowered Communities

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK), Apr 1, 2007 - Medical - 156 pages
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.
 

Contents

an overview of the book
1
Chapter 1 Health promotion practice
3
Chapter 2 Communities and communitybased interaction
17
Chapter 3 Health and empowerment
31
Chapter 4 Empowerment and health promotion programming
46
Chapter 5 Unpacking community empowerment for strategic planning
60
Chapter 6 Evaluating community empowerment
84
an issuesbased approach
102
a communitybased approach
115
Chapter 9 Building empowered communities
129
Bibliography
144
Index
155
Back cover
157
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About the author (2007)

Glenn Laverackis Director, Health Promotion at the School of Population Health, University of Auckland. He has worked in health promotion, public health and community development for twenty years in Africa, Asia and the Pacific regions. His Ph.D. investigated the mechanisms of community empowerment.

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