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Community health and wellbeing - Action research on health inequalities (Paperback, New)
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Community health and wellbeing - Action research on health inequalities (Paperback, New)
Series: Health and Society series
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Improving health in populations in which health is poor is a
complex process. 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. The book reports
lessons from the experience of planning, establishing and
delivering such action by the five-year Sustainable Health Action
Research Programme (SHARP) in Wales. It critically examines the
experience of SHARP in relation to current literature on policy;
community health and health inequalities; and action research. The
authors make clear how this regional development has produced
opportunities for developing general concepts and theory about
community-based policy developments that are relevant across
national boundaries and show that complex and sustained community
action, and effective local partnership, are fundamental components
of the mix of factors required to address health inequalities
successfully. The book concludes by indicating the connections
between SHARP and earlier traditions of community-based action, and
by arguing that we need to be bolder in our approaches to
community-based health improvement and more flexible in our
understanding of the ways in which knowledge and inform
developments in health policy. The book will be of interest to
practitioners and activists working in community-based projects;
students in community development, health studies and medical
sociology; professionals working in health promotion, community
nursing and allied areas; and policy makers working at local,
regional and national levels.
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