Research Catalog

Title

Community health and wellbeing : action research on health inequalities / edited by Steve Cropper [and others].

Publication

Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Cropper, Steve, 1957-

Description

xviii, 234 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Improving health in populations in which health is poor is a complex process. Exhorting individuals to live healthier lifestyles is not enough - action to promote public health needs to take place not just through public agencies, but also by engaging community assets and resources in their broadest sense." "The book reports lessons from the experience of planning, establishing and delivering such action by the five-year Sustainable Health Action Research Programme (SHARP) in Wales. It examines the experience of SHARP in relation to current literature on policy, community health, health inequalities and action research and concludes by suggesting lessons for national and local policy." "The book will be of interest to: practitioners and activists working in community-based projects; students in community development, health studies and medical sociology; professionals working in health promotion, community nursing and allied areas; and policy makers working at local, regional and national levels."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Health & society series

Uniform Title

Health & society series

Subject

• Sustainable Health Action Research Programme
• Sustainable Health Action Research Programme
• Health promotion
• Action research in public health
• Medical policy
• Public health
• Socioeconomic Factors
• Community Health Services
• Health Policy
• Public Health
• Health Promotion
• public health
• Public health
• Medical policy
• Action research in public health
• Health promotion
• Gesundheitsförderung
• Aktionsforschung
• Projekt
• Folkhälsopolitik
• Folkhälsa
• Wales

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Health inequalities in their place / Gareth Williams -- 'Policy experiments' : policy making, implementation and learning / Steve Cropper and Mark Goodwin -- Policy innovation to tackle health inequalities / Alison Porter, Chris Roberts and Angela Clements -- Action research partnerships : contributing to evidence and intelligent change / Steve Cropper, Helen Snooks, Angela Evans, Janet Pinder and Kevin Shales -- Engaging with communities / Bronwen Bermingham and Alison Porter -- The role of the community-based action researcher / Martin O'Neill -- Evaluation, evidence and learning in community-based action research / Sandra Carlisle, Helen Snooks, Angela Evans and David Cohen -- Social theory, social policy and sustainable communities / Robert Moore -- Beyond the experimenting society / Gareth Williams, Steve Cropper, Alison Porter and Helen Snooks.

ISBN

• 9781861348197
• 1861348193
• 9781861348180
• 1861348185

LCCN

2008371507

OCLC

• ocn137313695
• 137313695
• SCSB-14655725

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library