Public Health. Power, Empowerment and Professional Practice
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Author(s): Glenn Laverack
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780230217980
Format: softback
137pp
Price: £19.99
Review Date: 10 June 2009
Review: Public health always entails some power differential in the relationship between ‘practitioners’ and ‘clients’. In public health programmes the practitioner has power over the programme and the clients. This book aims to give the reader a theoretical understanding of the concepts of power and empowerment and introduces practical approaches for helping individuals, groups and communities to gain power. There are chapters on: power, empowerment and public health practice in context; power and empowerment; helping individuals to gain power; helping groups and communities to gain power; helping marginalised people to gain power; the measurement and visual representation of community empowerment.