Health Assets in a Global Context
Theory, Methods, Action
(Sprache: Englisch)
As global health inequities continue to widen, policymakers are redoubling their efforts to address them. Yet the effectiveness and quality of these programs vary considerably, sometimes resulting in the reverse of expected outcomes. While local political...
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As global health inequities continue to widen, policymakers are redoubling their efforts to address them. Yet the effectiveness and quality of these programs vary considerably, sometimes resulting in the reverse of expected outcomes. While local political issues or cultural conflicts may play a part in these situations, an important new book points to a universal factor: the prevailing deficit model of assessing health needs, which puts disadvantaged communities on the defensive while ignoring their potential strengths.
The asset model proposed in Health Assets in a Global Context International Health and Development offers a necessary complement to the problem-focused framework by assessing multiple levels of health-promoting aspects in populations, and promoting joint solutions between communities and outside agencies. The book provides not only rationales and methodologies (e.g., measuring resilience and similar elusive qualities) but also concrete examples of asset-based initiatives in use across the world on the individual and community levels.
The asset model proposed in Health Assets in a Global Context International Health and Development offers a necessary complement to the problem-focused framework by assessing multiple levels of health-promoting aspects in populations, and promoting joint solutions between communities and outside agencies. The book provides not only rationales and methodologies (e.g., measuring resilience and similar elusive qualities) but also concrete examples of asset-based initiatives in use across the world on the individual and community levels.
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As global health inequities continue to widen, policymakers are redoubling their efforts to address them. Yet the effectiveness and quality of these programs vary considerably, sometimes resulting in the reverse of expected outcomes. While local political issues or cultural conflicts may play a part in these situations, an important new book points to a universal factor: the prevailing deficit model of assessing health needs, which puts disadvantaged communities on the defensive while ignoring their potential strengths.The asset model proposed in Health Assets in a Global Context International Health and Development offers a necessary complement to the problem-focused framework by assessing multiple levels of health-promoting aspects in populations, and promoting joint solutions between communities and outside agencies. The book provides not only rationales and methodologies (e.g., measuring resilience and similar elusive qualities) but also concrete examples of asset-based initiatives in use across the world on the individual and community levels.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Health Assets in a Global Context “
- Introduction: Why Assets, Why Now?Part I: Conceptualising the Notion of Health Assets
- Revitalising the Public Health Evidence Base: An Assets Model
- A Salutogenic Approach to Tackling Health Inequalities
- Asset Mapping in Communities
- Assessing the Impact of Assets Based Approaches: New Approaches to Evaluation
Part II: Building an Evidence Base on Assets and Health
- Resilience as an Asset for Healthy Development
- Identifying Key Assets for Adolescents: Experience from Four Countries
- The Relationship Between Health Assets, Social Capital and Cohesive Communities
- Does Social Capital Determine Health: Evidence from Eight Transition Countries
- An Economic Assessment of the Asset Approach to Health and Development
Part III: Health Assets in Action
- Releasing the Assets of Local Communities
- Strengthening the Assets of Women Living in Disadvantaged Situations: The German Experience
- Influence of Internal and External Assets on Romanian Adolescent Health
Part IV: Health Assets and Public Policy
- Strengthening Asset Focused Policy Making
- How Forms of Social Capital Can Be An Asset for Promoting Health Equity
- Community Assets, Civil Society and Public Policy
- Developing a Strategic Approach to Asset Development at the European Level
Part V: International Case Studies Promoting an Assets Based Approach to Health and Development
Autoren-Porträt
Maggie DaviesMaggie Davies is the Principal Advisor on International Health Improvement at the Department of Health, England. She is on secondment from the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) where she is Associate Director of Development. Maggie is also the lead tutor on the Distance Learning MSc in Health Promotion for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Maggie is President of the Pan-European network Eurohealthnet, which deals with equity and health issues, and is Global Vice President for Conferences for the International Union of Health Promotion and Education.
Previously a lecturer in semiotics, Maggie has over 20 years experience of work in the field of public health which has ranged from managing local services to large-scale international projects. This includes work for organisations such as World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank.
Maggie has also been a volunteer for non-government agencies and has been a Director of the Terrence Higgins Trust and Rape Crisis, Croydon.
Maggie has a record of publication in the field and most recently has edited two books for the Oxford University Press on Health Promotion Theory and Practice.
Maggie has post graduate qualifications in health management and is a fellow of the Faculty of Public Health.
Antony Morgan
Antony Morgan is an Epidemiologist and is currently an Associate Director at the Centre for Public Health Excellence, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), England. Originally an applied chemist, Antony later trained in information science and epidemiology and has worked in Public Health in the English NHS for the last 25 years, at district, regional and national level. Antony is a Fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health and has Honorary Research Appointments at the Universities of Hertfordshire and
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Edinburgh. At NICE he is currently responsible for producing public health guidance across a range of public health topic areas, including inequalities, community engagement, mental well being and children, and sexual health. Special areas of research interest and expertise include social action for health (using the concept of social capital); assets approaches to health and development (particularly in relation to adolescent health) and new methodologies for building an evidence base on the social determinants of health. Antony is currently the Principal Investigator for England on the World Health Organization (WHO) Health Behaviour in School Aged Children Study.
Erio Ziglio
Dr Erio Ziglio is currently Head of the World Health Organization (WHO) European Office for Investment for Health and Development in Venice. He has worked for over 15 years in the academic world both in Europe and in North America. Between 1978 and 1990, he lectured for the Department of Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh and carried out research at the University's Research Unit in Health and Behavioural Change. In 1985, he was awarded his PhD at the University of Edinburgh.
In North America he was Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto, Department of Community Medicine (1983) and at Carlton University, Department of Social Studies, Ottawa, (1986). Dr Ziglio was also a member of the International Faculty of the School of Public Health at Yale University from 1996 to 2003.
Dr Ziglio has lectured internationally and published widely on subjects such as: health promotion; health policy and planning; social determinants of health; health inequities and health and development issues. He held an Honorary Professorship from the University of York, and has been an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
In the late 1980s he worked for three years as a Public Health Consultant for the European Commission in the early 1990s, joined the WHO Regional Office forEurope in Copenhagen taking on r
Erio Ziglio
Dr Erio Ziglio is currently Head of the World Health Organization (WHO) European Office for Investment for Health and Development in Venice. He has worked for over 15 years in the academic world both in Europe and in North America. Between 1978 and 1990, he lectured for the Department of Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh and carried out research at the University's Research Unit in Health and Behavioural Change. In 1985, he was awarded his PhD at the University of Edinburgh.
In North America he was Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto, Department of Community Medicine (1983) and at Carlton University, Department of Social Studies, Ottawa, (1986). Dr Ziglio was also a member of the International Faculty of the School of Public Health at Yale University from 1996 to 2003.
Dr Ziglio has lectured internationally and published widely on subjects such as: health promotion; health policy and planning; social determinants of health; health inequities and health and development issues. He held an Honorary Professorship from the University of York, and has been an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
In the late 1980s he worked for three years as a Public Health Consultant for the European Commission in the early 1990s, joined the WHO Regional Office forEurope in Copenhagen taking on r
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Bibliographische Angaben
- 2010, XXXVIII, 362 Seiten, Maße: 16,4 x 24,5 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Antony Morgan, Erio Ziglio, Maggie Davies
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 1441959203
- ISBN-13: 9781441959201
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
From the reviews:"This book explains the assets-based approach to improving the health of communities and reducing inequalities through research and practice. ... It is intended to challenge researchers', policymakers', and practitioners' thinking about improving health and reducing health inequalities of populations." (Jared Lane K. Maeda, Doody's Review Service, October, 2010)
"The basic idea behind this edited volume is to encourage researchers to quantify and value (and policy makers to protect) the full range of institutional and psychological assets globally possessed by individuals, communities, and populations, thus promoting the World Health Organization Assets for Health and Development Program. ... provide a useful summary of the salutogenic approach, focusing on resilience and empowerment." (Thomas A. Faunce, Journal of the American Medical Association, March, 2011)
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