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Abstract
Power is a concept central to public health practice. Based on sound principles, this book offers practical solutions for transforming professional power relations. With an emphasis on the work of nurse practitioners, it:
- introduces readers to the importance of the concepts of power and empowerment in public health practice,
- provides a methodology to plan, implement and evaluate empowering
public health programmes, and - investigates the implications of individual, group and community
empowerment on public health practice.
The second edition also incorporates new specialist material for nursing professionals, fresh case studies, a more recent analysis of the literature and a complete revision of the chapters, all designed to help public health professionals understand how to
enable their clients to gain power.
This new edition has been written to meet the continuing demand from practitioners who want to work in a more empowering way. So whether you're studying or practising, if you aspire to be a more effective and empowering practitioner this book will help you realise your professional goals.
DR GLENN LAVERACK has worked in public health in Europe, North America, Africa and the Asia-Pacific regions for more than twenty years. Previous publications include the books entitled Health Promotion Practice: Power& Empowerment (2004), Health Promotion Practice: Building Empowered Communities (2007) and Health Promotion in Action: From Local to Global Empowerment (2008).
A comprehensive and contemporary revised second edition on empowerment in healthcare settings
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Contents | v | ||
| List of tables, figures and boxes | viii | ||
| Acknowledgements | x | ||
| Preface | xi | ||
| An overview of the book | xii | ||
| 1 Power, empowerment and public health practice in context | 1 | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| The evolution of empowerment in public health practice | 4 | ||
| Power and public health practice | 6 | ||
| Public health practice and the interpretation of health | 10 | ||
| 2 Power and empowerment | 14 | ||
| What is power? | 14 | ||
| Power-from-within | 15 | ||
| Power-over | 16 | ||
| Hegemonic power | 17 | ||
| Power-with | 19 | ||
| Zero-sum and non-zero-sum forms of power | 20 | ||
| Powerlessness | 22 | ||
| Empowerment: the means to attaining power | 23 | ||
| Social and cultural perceptions of power and empowerment | 25 | ||
| 3 Empowerment and public health programming | 29 | ||
| Introduction | 29 | ||
| Empowerment and public health programming | 30 | ||
| Defining the key concepts | 31 | ||
| Problem assessment | 32 | ||
| 'Parallel-tracking' empowerment into maternal and newborn health | 35 | ||
| Resolving conflict | 39 | ||
| 4 Helping individuals to gain power | 43 | ||
| Overcoming powerlessness | 43 | ||
| Practitioners as more effective communicators | 45 | ||
| One-to-one communication | 46 | ||
| Learning to listen | 46 | ||
| Combining communication channels | 50 | ||
| Increasing the critical awareness of individual clients | 51 | ||
| Strategies for decision making | 52 | ||
| Photovoice | 54 | ||
| Health literacy | 56 | ||
| Fostering an empowering professional-client relationship | 58 | ||
| The power of language | 59 | ||
| 5 Helping groups and communities to gain power | 63 | ||
| What is a 'community'? | 63 | ||
| Community empowerment as a 5-point continuum | 64 | ||
| The 'domains' of community empowerment | 65 | ||
| A framework for helping groups and communities to gain power | 68 | ||
| Empowering individuals for personal action | 69 | ||
| Empowering small groups | 70 | ||
| Empowering groups to develop into community organisations | 72 | ||
| Empowering community organisations to develop partnerships | 74 | ||
| Empowering communities to take social and political action | 75 | ||
| Social movements | 76 | ||
| 6 Helping marginalised people to gain power | 80 | ||
| Marginalisation | 80 | ||
| Marginalisation and indigenous people | 82 | ||
| A case study of helping Aboriginal community-based organisations to take more control of health service delivery in Australia | 84 | ||
| Introduction | 84 | ||
| Building the capacity of the community-based organisations | 84 | ||
| The public health outcomes | 86 | ||
| Marginalisation and migration | 89 | ||
| A case study of helping Chinese migrants to take more control of their health by preventing injury from accidents in New Zealand | 90 | ||
| Introduction | 90 | ||
| Assisting migrant Chinese to gain power | 91 | ||
| 7 The measurement and visual representation of community empowerment | 97 | ||
| Collecting and analysing qualitative information | 97 | ||
| Collecting and analysing qualitative information in a cross-cultural context | 100 | ||
| The measurement of community empowerment | 103 | ||
| The 'domains approach' | 103 | ||
| The visual representation of the measurement | 108 | ||
| A case study of empowering rural communities to take control of local resources in Thailand | 109 | ||
| Introduction | 109 | ||
| The cultural context | 110 | ||
| Ban Tam-Nong Bia community | 110 | ||
| Ban Mae Kampong community | 110 | ||
| Experiences of building community capacity | 111 | ||
| The Ban Tam-Nong Bia community | 111 | ||
| The Ban Mae Kampong community | 113 | ||
| 8 The future of public health programming | 116 | ||
| Why we are where we are | 116 | ||
| What public health programming will have to look like in the future | 118 | ||
| Engage communities to share their priorities | 119 | ||
| Build community capacity | 121 | ||
| Mechanisms for flexible funding | 122 | ||
| Evaluate to share information and ideas | 123 | ||
| Be creative to expand on local initiatives | 124 | ||
| References | 127 | ||
| Index | 135 | ||
| A | 135 | ||
| B | 135 | ||
| C | 135 | ||
| D | 135 | ||
| E | 135 | ||
| F | 135 | ||
| G | 135 | ||
| H | 135 | ||
| I | 136 | ||
| L | 136 | ||
| M | 136 | ||
| N | 136 | ||
| O | 136 | ||
| P | 136 | ||
| Q | 136 | ||
| R | 137 | ||
| S | 137 | ||
| T | 137 | ||
| V | 137 | ||
| W | 137 |