Health Promotion Practice
Building Empowered Communities
1st Edition
Published on 1. April 2007
168 pages
978-0-335-22995-6 (ISBN)
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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.
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Content
- Front cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copy right
- Contents
- Tables, Figures and Boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: an overview of the book
- Chapter 1 Health promotion practice
- Health promotion in context
- Health promotion and public health
- Health promotion and health education
- Power and powerlessness
- Power-over
- Power from within
- Power-with
- Powerlessness
- Professional practice and empowerment
- Chapter 2 Communities and communitybased interaction
- What is a community?
- What is civil society?
- What are community-based concepts?
- Community-based interaction
- The ladder of community-based interaction
- Community Readiness
- Community Participation
- Community Engagement
- Community Organization
- Community Development
- Community Capacity
- Community Action
- Community Empowerment
- Chapter 3 Health and empowerment
- Interpreting the meaning of health
- The link between empowerment and improved health outcomes
- Participation and improved health outcomes
- Organizational structures and improved health outcomes
- Resource mobilization and improved health outcomes
- 'Asking why' and improved health outcomes
- Problem assessment and improved health outcomes
- Links with others and improved health outcomes
- The role of the outside agents and improved health outcomes
- Empowering people to address the determinants of health
- This boy's life: the everydayness of the determinants of health
- Chapter 4 Empowerment and health promotion programming
- Health promotion programming and parallel tracking
- Does the programme have a fixed timeframe or a flexible timeframe?
- Is it the outside agent or the community who identifies the concerns to be addressed?
- Is it the outside agent or the community who has control over the management of the programme?
- How is the programme evaluated?
- Accommodating empowerment approaches into chronic disease programmes
- The programme design phase
- Setting programme objectives
- Developing the strategic approach
- Programme management and implementation
- Evaluation
- Chapter 5 'Unpacking' community empowerment for strategic planning
- The domains of community empowerment
- Improves participation
- Develops local leadership
- Builds empowering organizational structures
- Increases problem assessment capacities
- Enhances the ability of the community to 'ask why'
- Improves resource mobilization
- Strengthens links to other organizations and people
- Creates an equitable relationship with outside agents
- Increases control over programme management
- Strategic planning for community empowerment
- Step 1: preparation
- Step 2: setting a baseline for each domain
- Step 3: strategic planning and the assessment of resources
- Step 4: evaluation and visual representation
- Chapter 6 Evaluating community empowerment
- The purpose of evaluation in a programme context
- Design considerations
- Selecting an appropriate paradigm
- Ethical and practical considerations
- Methodological considerations
- Defining and measuring an inclusive community
- Creation of valid knowledge from diverse perspectives and participation
- The problematic use of rating scales to measure empowerment
- The visual representation of the evaluation of empowerment
- The spider-web configuration
- Adapting the spider-web configuration
- Chapter 7 Empowerment in action: an issues-based approach
- Case study 1: improving health outcomes and community capacity in Canada
- The Saskatoon 'In Motion Programme'
- The impact of the SIMP
- Case study 2: improving housing standards in an inner-city area in England
- Applying the empowerment domains to the community issue
- Chapter 8 Empowerment in action: a community-based approach
- Case study 1: improving health and hygiene in a remote community in Northern Australia
- The health promotion context
- A community-based approach to promote health and hygiene
- Case study 2: improving livelihoods in rural communities in Kyrgyzstan
- The cultural context
- The community empowerment approach
- Evaluating community empowerment
- Chapter 9 Building empowered communities
- Lessons learnt
- Addressing community concerns
- Building partnerships
- Building community capacity
- Evaluating and sharing ideas and visions
- The social perspective
- The structural perspective
- The structural perspective and the determinants of health
- The radical perspective
- The ultra-radical
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back cover
