Health Promotion Practice:Power and Empowerment

 by Glenn Laverack   PB 190 pages

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.

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Health Promotion : Planning and Strategies

by Keith Tones & Jackie Green  PB

Beginning with a critical appraisal of the concept itself, the book outlines new models for defining 'health promotion' and sets out the factors involved in planning health promotion programmes that work. With detailed strategies for action that can be applied within a range of contexts and settings, the book's focus is particularly on the synergistic relationship between policy and education, the question of "evidence", and the role of evaluation..

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