Health Promotion Practice: Building Empowered Communities: Building Empowered Communities

The author provides an understanding of the key concepts of power and empowerment and the link to improved health outcomes in the context of health promotion programmes. He also offers practical approaches that can be used in health promotion programming to build and evaluate empowered communities.

Dr. Glenn Laverack is a world leader in health promotion and has a distinguished career working for more than 25 years in Europe, Africa, Asia, North America and the Pacific regions. He formerly worked as a Coordinator (Empowerment) at the WHO in Geneva and as the Director of Health Promotion at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is presently an Honorary Professor of Health Promotion at the University of Southern Denmark.