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Health promotion practice : power and empowerment / Glenn Laverack.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Los Angeles. : SAGE, c2004.Description: xvii, 157 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 97807619417978
  • 9780761941804 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 613 22
LOC classification:
  • RA427.8.L38 2004
NLM classification:
  • 2004 D-741
  • WA 546.1
Online resources:
Contents:
CONTENTS List of Figures, Tables and Boxes -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- An Overview of the Book -- Chapter 1: Health Promotion in Context -- Chapter 2: Promoting Health: It All Depends on What We Mean by 'Health' -- Chapter 3: Power Transformation and Health Promotion Practice -- Chapter 4: Community Empowerment and Health Promotion Practice -- Chapter 5: Addressing the Tensions in Health Promotion Programming -- Chapter 6: 'Parallel-Tracking' Community Empowerment into Health Promotion Programming -- Chapter 7: The Domains of Community Empowerment -- Chapter 8: Building Community Empowerment Approaches in Health Promotion -- Chapter 9: Evaluating Community Empowerment Approaches -- Chapter 10: Implications for an Empowering Health Promotion Practice.
Summary: 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, this book defines key concepts of health, health promotion and community empowerment.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books KMTC:MURANGA CAMPUS Staff Office RT 90.3.L38 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available MUR5934
Books Books KMTC:MURANGA CAMPUS Staff Office RA427.8.L38 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available MUR5933
Books Books KMTC:MURANGA CAMPUS Staff Office RT 90.3.L38 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available MUR5935
Books Books KMTC:NAIROBI CAMPUS General Stacks RA427.8.L38 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 27714

Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-153) and index.

CONTENTS
List of Figures, Tables and Boxes --
Foreword --
Preface --
Acknowledgements --
An Overview of the Book --
Chapter 1: Health Promotion in Context --
Chapter 2: Promoting Health: It All Depends on What We Mean by 'Health' --
Chapter 3: Power Transformation and Health Promotion Practice --
Chapter 4: Community Empowerment and Health Promotion Practice --
Chapter 5: Addressing the Tensions in Health Promotion Programming --
Chapter 6: 'Parallel-Tracking' Community Empowerment into Health Promotion Programming --
Chapter 7: The Domains of Community Empowerment --
Chapter 8: Building Community Empowerment Approaches in Health Promotion --
Chapter 9: Evaluating Community Empowerment Approaches --
Chapter 10: Implications for an Empowering Health Promotion Practice.

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, this book defines key concepts of health, health promotion and community empowerment.

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