Community health and wellbeing : : Action research on health inequalities / / ed. by Steve Cropper, Alison Porter, Gareth Williams, Sandra Carlisle, Robert Moore, Martin O'Neill, Chris Roberts, Helen Snooks.
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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2007] ©2007 |
Year of Publication: | 2007 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Health and Society
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- Health inequalities in their place
- ‘Policy experiments’: policy making, implementation and learning
- Policy innovation to tackle health inequalities
- Action research partnerships: contributing to evidence and intelligent change
- Engaging with communities
- The role of the community-based action researcher
- Evaluation, evidence and learning in community-based action research
- Social theory, social policy and sustainable communities
- Beyond the experimenting society
- Index