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Citation
(2005), "Public Health: Power, Empowerment & Professional Practice", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 18 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa.2005.06218eae.003
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2005, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Public Health: Power, Empowerment & Professional Practice
Glenn LeverackPalgrave Macmillan2005ISBN 1-403945-60-8,160pp.
Keywords: Public health, Empowerment, Quality programmes, Health services
Power is a concept central to public health practice. This book addresses for the first time, in such a practical way, how public health professionals can help their clients gain power. It offers sound theoretical principles and practical solutions for transforming power relations to improve public health practice. It also introduces readers to a new methodology to plan, implement and evaluate empowering health programmes.
Illustrated throughout with international case study examples to demonstrate principles of an empowering professional practice, this lively text will be key reading for today’s public health practitioners.
Contents include:
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Power and public health practice.
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Public health in context.
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Power and empowerment.
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Helping individuals to gain power.
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Helping groups and communities to gain power.
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Helping marginalised groups to gain power.
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The measurement and visual representation of empowerment.
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Power, empowerment and professional practice.