Health Promotion in Action: From Local to Global Empowerment

by Glenn Laverack, Ronald Labonté, R. Labonté

Globalization is reshaping the field of health promotion practice. In this innovative study, the authors outline health promotion's traditional concerns and argue that 'a policy of glocalization' (thinking globally, acting locally) can succeed in establishing health equality and achieving empowerment individually, locally, nationally and globally. Drawing on international examples across Africa, Asia, Europe and North America, this study analyses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230007228
• ISBN13: 9780230007222
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.6"