Front cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copy right -- Contents -- Tables, Figures and Boxes -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: an overview of the book -- Chapter 1 Health promotion practice -- Health promotion in context -- Health promotion and public health -- Health promotion and health education -- Power and powerlessness -- Power-over -- Power from within -- Power-with -- Powerlessness -- Professional practice and empowerment -- Chapter 2 Communities and communitybased interaction -- What is a community? -- What is civil society? -- What are community-based concepts? -- Community-based interaction -- The ladder of community-based interaction -- Community Readiness -- Community Participation -- Community Engagement -- Community Organization -- Community Development -- Community Capacity -- Community Action -- Community Empowerment -- Chapter 3 Health and empowerment -- Interpreting the meaning of health -- The link between empowerment and improved health outcomes -- Participation and improved health outcomes -- Organizational structures and improved health outcomes -- Resource mobilization and improved health outcomes -- 'Asking why' and improved health outcomes -- Problem assessment and improved health outcomes -- Links with others and improved health outcomes -- The role of the outside agents and improved health outcomes -- Empowering people to address the determinants of health -- This boy's life: the everydayness of the determinants of health -- Chapter 4 Empowerment and health promotion programming -- Health promotion programming and parallel tracking -- Does the programme have a fixed timeframe or a flexible timeframe? -- Is it the outside agent or the community who identifies the concerns to be addressed? -- Is it the outside agent or the community who has control over the management of the programme?.

How is the programme evaluated? -- Accommodating empowerment approaches into chronic disease programmes -- The programme design phase -- Setting programme objectives -- Developing the strategic approach -- Programme management and implementation -- Evaluation -- Chapter 5 'Unpacking' community empowerment for strategic planning -- The domains of community empowerment -- Improves participation -- Develops local leadership -- Builds empowering organizational structures -- Increases problem assessment capacities -- Enhances the ability of the community to 'ask why' -- Improves resource mobilization -- Strengthens links to other organizations and people -- Creates an equitable relationship with outside agents -- Increases control over programme management -- Strategic planning for community empowerment -- Step 1: preparation -- Step 2: setting a baseline for each domain -- Step 3: strategic planning and the assessment of resources -- Step 4: evaluation and visual representation -- Chapter 6 Evaluating community empowerment -- The purpose of evaluation in a programme context -- Design considerations -- Selecting an appropriate paradigm -- Ethical and practical considerations -- Methodological considerations -- Defining and measuring an inclusive community -- Creation of valid knowledge from diverse perspectives and participation -- The problematic use of rating scales to measure empowerment -- The visual representation of the evaluation of empowerment -- The spider-web configuration -- Adapting the spider-web configuration -- Chapter 7 Empowerment in action: an issues-based approach -- Case study 1: improving health outcomes and community capacity in Canada -- The Saskatoon 'In Motion Programme' -- The impact of the SIMP -- Case study 2: improving housing standards in an inner-city area in England -- Applying the empowerment domains to the community issue.

Chapter 8 Empowerment in action: a community-based approach -- Case study 1: improving health and hygiene in a remote community in Northern Australia -- The health promotion context -- A community-based approach to promote health and hygiene -- Case study 2: improving livelihoods in rural communities in Kyrgyzstan -- The cultural context -- The community empowerment approach -- Evaluating community empowerment -- Chapter 9 Building empowered communities -- Lessons learnt -- Addressing community concerns -- Building partnerships -- Building community capacity -- Evaluating and sharing ideas and visions -- The social perspective -- The structural perspective -- The structural perspective and the determinants of health -- The radical perspective -- The ultra-radical -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover.