Health Promotion in Action: From Local to Global Empowerment by Labonté, R.

Health Promotion in Action: From Local to Global Empowerment (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349283187)

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Health Promotion in Action: From Local to Global Empowerment by Labonté, R.

Health Promotion in Action: From Local to Global Empowerment

$54.99
Health Promotion in Action: From Local to Global Empowerment by Labonté, R.

Health Promotion in Action: From Local to Global Empowerment

$54.99
Format: Paperback
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Globalization is reshaping the field of health promotion practice. In this innovative study, the authors outline health promotion's traditional concerns and argue that 'a policy of glocalization' (thinking globally, acting locally) can succeed in establishing health equality and achieving empowerment individually, locally, nationally and globally. Drawing on international examples across Africa, Asia, Europe and North America, this study analyses economic policies and their link to health, particularly in relation to the developing world. Globalization affects health in varied ways and this book examines the competing ways in which 'global health' has been framed in public policy, concluding by revealing how health promoters can respond to globalization's new challenges.

Author: R. Labonté, G. Laverack
ISBN-10: 1349283185
ISBN-13: 9781349283187
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2008
Pages: 215
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.54d
By R. Labonté
By R. Labonté
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Author Glenn Laverack: Glenn Laverack is seen as a leader in health promotion and empowerment and has a distinguished career in public health for more than 25 years working in Europe, Africa, Asia, North America and the Pacific regions. He formerly worked as the TDR Coordinator (Empowerment) at the WHO in Geneva and as a senior research fellow at the Southgate Institute, Flinders University, Australia. Dr Laverack is currently an honorary professor at the University of Southern Denmark and has a wide range of publications including books in English, Portugese, Russian and German. His Ph.D. investigated the accommodation of community empowerment within top-down public health programming in the South Pacific. He has a significant range of professional experience in cross-cultural settings that facilitates a broad insight at both a theoretical and practice level.

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