Public Health : Power, Empowerment and Professional Practice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laverack, Glenn

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health.

Community development.

Patients--Legal status, laws, etc.

Patients.

Power (Social sciences).

Public Health.

Medical Subjects:

Public Health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 pages)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Tables, Figures and Boxes; Acknowledgements; An overview of the book; 1 Public health practice in context; Introduction; Public health practitioners; The evolution of empowerment in public health practice; Power and public health practice; Public health practice and the interpretation of health; 2 Power and empowerment; What is power?; Three variations of power; Power-from-within; Power-over; Power-with; Powerlessness; Zero-sum and non-zero-sum; Empowerment: the means to attaining power; Activism; 3 Empowerment and public health programming; Introduction.

Needs assessmentMapping; Parallel-tracking empowerment; 4 Helping individuals to become empowered; Autonomy; Overcoming powerlessness; Practitioners as more effective communicators; Harm reduction; Moral suasion; 5 Patient empowerment; Introduction; What is patient empowerment?; The professional-patient power relationship; Fostering an empowering professional-patient relationship; The power of language; Salutogenesis and patient empowerment; Patient action; 6 Helping groups to be more critical; The link between education and empowerment; Increasing critical awareness; Lay epidemiology.

Self-help groupsPhoto-voice; Health literacy; Strategies for collective decision making; 7 Helping communities to become empowered; What is a 'community'?; Community empowerment as a five-point continuum; Health social movements; 8 Helping migrant populations to become empowered; Introduction; Marginalization; Marginalization and migration; Roma migrants and empowerment; Helping migrant populations; Resolving conflict; 9 The measurement and visual representation of community empowerment; Collecting and analysing qualitative information.

Facilitating the collection of qualitative information in a cross-cultural contextThe measurement of community empowerment; The domains of community empowerment; The domains approach; The visual representation of the measurement; The spider web configuration; 10 Public health, power and empowerment; Why we are where we are; Giving communities a stronger role in public health; Engage communities to share their priorities; Build community capacity; Use mechanisms for flexible funding; Build on successful local initiatives; Provide the means to allow community feedback; References; Index.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Laverack, Glenn. Public Health : Power, Empowerment and Professional Practice.

ISBN:

9781137546043

1137546042

Publisher Number:

90104550622

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.