Health assets in a global context : theory, methods, action
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Antony Morgan; Maggie Davies; Erio Ziglio
- ناشر : New York : Springer
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2010
- شابک / ISBN : 9781441959201
Description
Preface Acknowledgements Contributors Abbreviations List Part 1: Conceptualising the notion of health assets 1. Revitalising the Public Health Evidence Base: An Asset Model 2. A Salutogenic Approach to Tackling Health Inequalities 3. A Theoretical Model of Assets: The Link Between Biology and the Social Structure 4. Asset Mapping in Communities 5. Assets Based Interventions: Evaluating and Synthesizing Evidence of the Effectiveness of the Assets Based Approach to Health Promotion. Part 2: Building an evidence base on assets and health 6. Resilience as an Asset for Healthy Development 7. How to Assess Resilience: Reflections on a Measurement Model 8. Measuring Children's Well-Being: Some Problems and Possibilities 9. The Relationship Between Health Assets, Social Capital and Cohesive Communities Part 3: Health Assets in Action 10. Community Empowerment and Health Improvement 11. Strengthening the Assets of Women Living in Disadvantaged Situations: The German Experience 12. Sustainable Community Based Health and Development Programs in Rural India Alok Mukhopadhyay, Anjali Gupta 13. The Application and Evaluation of an Assets-Based Model in Latin America and the Caribbean: the Experience With the Healthy Settings Approach 14. Parents and Communities' Assets to Control Under-Five Child Malaria in Rural Benin, West Africa. Part 4: Health Assets and Public Policy 15. Strengthening Asset Focused Policy Making in Hungary 16. How Forms of Social Capital can be an Asset for Promoting Health Equity 17. Internal and External Assets and Romanian Adolescents' Health: An Evidence-Based Approach to Health Promoting Schools Policy 18. Bringing it all Together - The Salutogenic Response to Some of the Most Pertinent Public Health Dilemmas Conclusion
This book exposes the prevailing deficit model of assessing health needs, which puts disadvantaged communities on the defensive and ignores their potential strengths. The book offers rationales and methodologies, with solid examples of asset-based initiatives.
