Public Health: Power, Empowerment and Professional Practice

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of tables, figures and boxes......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Preface......Page 12
An overview of the book......Page 14
An empowering approach to public health practice......Page 16
Helping individuals to gain power......Page 19
Helping groups and communities to gain power......Page 20
Public health programming......Page 22
\'Parallel-tracking\' empowerment in public health programming......Page 25
Public health Practitioners and their clients......Page 29
Power and public health practice in bureaucratic settings......Page 30
Professional versus lay interpretations of health......Page 32
Empowerment and public health discourse......Page 36
Public health and social movement theory......Page 38
What is power?......Page 42
Power-from-within......Page 43
Power-over......Page 44
Power-with......Page 45
Zero-sum and non-zero-sum forms of power......Page 46
What is powerlessness?......Page 48
What is the means to attaining power?......Page 50
Cultural and contextual interpretations of power and empowerment......Page 51
Practitioners as more effective communicators......Page 55
One-to-one communication......Page 56
Learning to listen......Page 58
Combining communication channels......Page 60
Mapping positions of power......Page 62
Ranking complex issues......Page 63
Strategies for decision making......Page 64
Developing a strategic plan for decision making......Page 65
Fostering an empowering professional–client relationship......Page 67
The power of language......Page 68
What is a \'community\'?......Page 72
Community empowerment as a 5-point continuum......Page 73
The \'domains\' of community empowerment......Page 75
A framework for helping groups and communities to gain power......Page 78
Empowering individuals for action......Page 79
Empowering groups......Page 81
Empowering groups for the development of community organisations......Page 84
Empowering community organisations to develop partnerships......Page 87
Empowering communities to take social and political action......Page 88
Introduction......Page 90
A case study of helping marginalised groups to gain power......Page 92
An approach to promote health and empowerment......Page 93
Strengthening community empowerment......Page 94
Building healthy public policy and creating a supportive environment......Page 97
Dealing with conflict......Page 100
Collecting and analysing qualitative information......Page 104
Collecting and analysing qualitative information in a cross-cultural context......Page 109
The measurement of empowerment......Page 112
Visual representations of community empowerment......Page 117
The interpretation and visual representation of community empowerment......Page 118
Introduction......Page 125
Addressing the constraints in public health practice......Page 127
Addressing the bureaucratic constraints......Page 128
Using an empowering approach to public health programming......Page 130
Using measurement to empower others......Page 131
Understanding the means to empower individual clients, groups and communities......Page 132
The practical application of the ideas in the book......Page 133
References......Page 135
L......Page 141
W......Page 142