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.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• MitwirkendeR: Bermingham, Bronwen,; Carlisle, Sandra,; Clements, Angela,; Cohen, David,; Cropper, Steve,; Evans, Angela,; Goodwin, Mark,; Moore, Robert,; O’Neill, Martin,; Pinder, Janet,; Porter, Alison,; Roberts, Chris,; Shales, Kevin,; Snooks, Helen,; Williams, Gareth,
• HerausgeberIn: Carlisle, Sandra,; Cropper, Steve,; Moore, Robert,; O'Neill, Martin,; Porter, Alison,; Roberts, Chris,; Snooks, Helen,; Williams, Gareth,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Health and Society
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

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...

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