[EQ] Health Assets in a Global Context - Theory, Methods, Action

Health Assets in a Global Context - Theory, Methods, Action

Publisher: Springer New York -DOI10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8 - July 2010

ISBN     978-1-4419-5920-1 (Print) 978-1-4419-5921-8 (Online)

Edited by Antony Morgan, Maggie Davies, and Erio Ziglio

Available online at: http://bit.ly/auIY7y

 

“……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 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, including:

 • Strengthening the assets of disadvantaged women (Germany).
 • Sustainable community-based development programs (India).
 • Using parental assets to control child malaria (West Africa).
 • Asset/evidence-based health promotion in the schools (Romania).
 • Evaluating asset-based programs (Latin America).
 • Using social capital to promote health equity (Australia). …………..”

Content:

Chapter Revitalising the Public Health Evidence Base: An Asset Model Antony Morgan and Erio Ziglio   DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_1   PDF (160.1 KB)HTML

Chapter A Salutogenic Approach to Tackling Health Inequalities Bengt Lindström and Monica Eriksson DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_2   PDF (197.1 KB)HTML

Chapter A Theoretical Model of Assets: The Link Between Biology and the Social Structure Michael P. Kelly DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_3   PDF (162.5 KB)HTML

Chapter Asset Mapping in Communities John McKnight DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_4   PDF (297.1 KB)HTML

Chapter Assets Based Interventions: Evaluating and Synthesizing Evidence of the Effectiveness of the Assets Based Approach to Health Promotion Marcia Hills, Simon Carroll and Sylvie Desjardins DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_5   PDF (204.3 KB)HTML

Chapter Resilience as an Asset for Healthy Development Mel Bartley, Ingrid Schoon, Richard Mitchell and David Blane DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_6   PDF (144.2 KB)HTML

Chapter How to Assess Resilience: Reflections on a Measurement Model Nora Wille and Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_7   PDF (405.2 KB)HTML

Chapter Measuring Children’s Well-Being: Some Problems and Possibilities Virginia Morrow and Berry Mayall DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_8   PDF (185.7 KB)HTML

Chapter The Relationship Between Health Assets, Social Capital and Cohesive Communities Ichiro Kawachi DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_9   PDF (134.3 KB)HTML

Chapter Community Empowerment and Health Improvement: The English Experience Jennie Popay DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_10   PDF (151.8 KB)HTML

Chapter Strengthening the Assets of Women Living in Disadvantaged Situations: The German Experience Alfred Rütten, Karim Abu-Omar, Sabine Seidenstücker and Sabine Mayer DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_11   PDF (283.0 KB)HTML

Chapter Sustainable Community-Based Health and Development Programs in Rural India Alok Mukhopadhyay and Anjali Gupta DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_12   PDF (195.3 KB)HTML

Chapter The Application and Evaluation of an Assets-Based Model in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Experience with the Healthy Settings Approach Maria C. Franceschini, Marilyn Rice and Cristina Raquel C. Garcia DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_13   PDF (134.1 KB)HTML

Chapter Parents and Communities’ Assets to Control Under-Five Child Malaria in Rural Benin, West Africa David Houéto and Alain Deccache DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_14   PDF (246.1 KB)HTML

Chapter Strengthening Asset Focused Policy Making in Hungary Péter Makara, Zsófia Németh and Ágnes Taller DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_15   PDF (131.8 KB)HTML

Chapter How Forms of Social Capital Can Be an Asset for Promoting Health Equity Fran Baum DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_16   PDF (202.7 KB)HTML

Chapter Internal and External Assets and Romanian Adolescents’ Health: An Evidence-Based Approach to Health Promoting Schools Policy Adriana Baban and Catrinel Craciun DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_17   PDF (161.0 KB)HTML

Chapter Bringing It All Together: The Salutogenic Response to Some of the Most Pertinent Public Health Dilemmas Monica Eriksson and Bengt Lindström DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_18   PDF (185.4 KB)HTML

 

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