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 economic policies and their link to health, particularly in relation to the developing world. Globalization affects health in varied ways and this book examines the competing ways in which 'global health' has been framed in public policy, concluding by revealing how health promoters can respond to globalization's new challenges.
INTRODUCTION: Localizing the Global
Health Promotion Practice: Concepts and Context
Health Promotion Practice; Power, Empowerment and the Social Determinants of Health
Pathways to Local Empowerment
Working to Build Empowerment: The Local Challenge
Pathways from the Local to the Global
Working to Build Empowerment: The Global Challenge
Globalization: Health Promotion's Next Grand Challenge?
References
Index
RONALD LABONTÉ is Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Health Equity, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Canada. He has written and consulted extensively on health promotion, community development and globalization.
GLENN LAVERACK is Director of Health Promotion at the School of Population Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has published widely on empowerment and community capacity building in international settings and has a strong practice background in health promotion and public health.
Description
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 economic policies and their link to health, particularly in relation to the developing world. Globalization affects health in varied ways and this book examines the competing ways in which 'global health' has been framed in public policy, concluding by revealing how health promoters can respond to globalization's new challenges.
Contents
INTRODUCTION: Localizing the Global
Health Promotion Practice: Concepts and Context
Health Promotion Practice; Power, Empowerment and the Social Determinants of Health
Pathways to Local Empowerment
Working to Build Empowerment: The Local Challenge
Pathways from the Local to the Global
Working to Build Empowerment: The Global Challenge
Globalization: Health Promotion's Next Grand Challenge?
References
Index
Authors
RONALD LABONTÉ is Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Health Equity, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Canada. He has written and consulted extensively on health promotion, community development and globalization.
GLENN LAVERACK is Director of Health Promotion at the School of Population Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has published widely on empowerment and community capacity building in international settings and has a strong practice background in health promotion and public health.
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