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'Take control or lean back?'

barriers to practicing empowerment in health promotion

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'Take control or lean back?'

barriers to practicing empowerment in health promotion

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Over the last few decades health promotion has increasingly focused on the empowerment of deprived communities and is shifting from a 'top-down' approach to a participatory practice, aimed at helping people to gain control over their lives and health. Previous research shows that this shift is not without problems. In The Netherlands, an Action Learning Programme on Empowerment was developed to help health promotion practitioners in this transition. 24 Practitioners from different fields of health promotion took part in a six-month programme. Qualitative data were collected from different sources and methods and were analysed using a thematic analysis. The findings threw light on a core dilemma in health promotion practice and several barriers to bringing empowerment into practice, both on a personal level, and in relationship to the community and wider institutional context. The implications of this study for the empowerment ethos of health promotion and its feasibility within the current West-European policy context are discussed.

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OrganisatieFontys
AfdelingFontys Opleidingscentrum Speciale Onderwijszorg
Gepubliceerd inHealth promotion practice Sage, Vol. 2011, Uitgave: vol. 12, no. 1, Pagina's: 94-101
Jaar2011
TypeArtikel
TaalEngels

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