Teaches readers to assess multiple levels of health-promoting aspects in populations and promote joint solutions between communities and outside agencies. Provides concrete examples of asset-based initiatives in use across the world on the individual and community levels. INDICE: Introduction: Why Assets, Why Now?.- Part I: Conceptualising the Notion of Health Assets.- Revitalising the Public Health Evidence Base: An Assets Model.- A Salutogenic Approach to Tackling Health Inequalities.- Asset Mapping in Communities.- Assessing the Impact of Assets Based Approaches: New Approaches to Evaluation.- Part II: Building an Evidence Base on Assets and Health.- Resilience as an Asset for Healthy Development.- Identifying Key Assets forAdolescents: Experience from Four Countries.- The Relationship Between HealthAssets, Social Capital and Cohesive Communities.- Does Social Capital Determine Health: Evidence from Eight Transition Countries.- An Economic Assessment of the Asset Approach to Health and Development.- Part III: Health Assets in Action.- Releasing the Assets of Local Communities.- Strengthening the Assets ofWomen Living in Disadvantaged Situations: The German Experience.- Influence of Internal and External Assets on Romanian Adolescent Health.- Part IV: HealthAssets and Public Policy.- Strengthening Asset Focused Policy Making.- How Forms of Social Capital Can Be An Asset for Promoting Health Equity.- Community Assets, Civil Society and Public Policy.- Developing a Strategic Approach to Asset Development at the European Level.- Part V: International Case Studies Promoting an Assets Based Approach to Health and Development.
- ISBN: 978-1-4419-5920-1
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 290
- Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés