• ISBN13: 9781403945600
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publisher Imprint: Palgr Mac
• Publication Date: August 17, 2005
• Pages: 144
• Original Price: GBP 18.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 500 grams

About the Book This book addresses for the first time, in a practical way, how public health professionals can help their clients to 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 public health programs.

Glenn Laverack is Director of Health Promotion at the School of Population Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has worked as a Public Health Consultant, and a specialist in health promotion and community capacity building for over 15 years in countries as diverse as Ghana, Fiji, Vanuatu, Australia, India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. His previous publications include "Health Promotion: Power and Empowerment" (2004).