Table of Contents

Preface
An overview of the book
Health promotion practice
Communities and community based interaction
Health and empowerment
Empowerment & health promotion programming
'Unpacking' community empowerment for strategic planning
Evaluating community empowerment
Empowerment in action: An issues based approach
Empowerment in action: A community-based approach
Building empowered communities in health promotion Practice
Index
Bibliography

About the Author

Dr. Glenn Laverack is a world leader in health promotion and has a distinguished career working for more than 25 years in Europe, Africa, Asia, North America and the Pacific regions. He formerly worked as a Coordinator (Empowerment) at the WHO in Geneva and as the Director of Health Promotion at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is presently an Honorary Professor of Health Promotion at the University of Southern Denmark.