Public health
Subtitle: power, empowerment, and professional practice
By: Glenn Laverack
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9780230217980
Subjects: Public health; Community development; Power (Social sciences); Social Medicine; Methods; Community Networks; Organizational Case Studies; Physician's Role; Psychological Power; Public Health; Folkhälsa
Description: Offering sound theoretical principles and practical solutions for transforming power relations to improving public health practices, this text looks at how healthcare professionals can make their day-to-day work more empowering, demonstrating methods which can result in improvements to healthcare provison.
Notes: Previous ed.: 2005.

Glenn Laverack is a lecturer at the University of Auckland.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-134) and index.
Table of contents: title: Power, empowerment and public health practice in context; title: Power and empowerment; title: Empowerment and public health programming; title: Helping individuals to gain power; title: Helping groups and communities to gain power; title: Helping marginalised people to gain power; title: The measurement and visual representation of community empowerment; title: The future of public health programming.