Community Health and Wellbeing: Action Research on Health Inequalities (Health & Society Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861348185 ISBN 13: 9781861348180

Publisher: Policy Press, 2007

Synopsis

This book argues that the traditional government approach of exhorting individuals to live healthier lifestyles is not enough - action to promote public health needs to take place not just through public agencies, but also by engaging community assets and resources in their broadest sense.

About this title

About the Author:

Steve Cropper is Professor of Management in the Centre for Health Planning and Management at Keele University. Alison Porter is a researcher at the School of Medicine at Swansea University.Gareth Williams is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. Sandra Carlisle is currently Research Fellow in the Public Health Section of the University of Glasgow. Robert Moore is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Liverpool. Martin O'Neill Academic Coordinator on the Gates project at Gamorgan University. Chris Roberts is a social researcher in the Public Health and Health Professions Department, Welsh Assembly Government. Helen Snooks is Professor of Health Services Research at Swansea University.

Review:

We understand health inequalities pretty well. We're less clear what to doabout them. This book shows what can be achieved by activists, researchersand policy makers working together. It takes us beyond description toaction for health. Professor Graham Hart, University College London

About this edition

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1861348185
• ISBN 13: 9781861348180
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Cropper Steve, Porter Alison, Williams Gareth, Moore Robert, Carlisle Sandra, O'Neill Martin, Roberts Chris, Snooks Helen