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Toward resourcefulness : pathways for community positive health
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- Peters, Laura E. R. (author)
- Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London, London, UK; Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK; College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis OR, USA; Stema Health Systems, London, England
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- Shannon, Geordan (author)
- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, England
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- Kelman, Ilan (author)
- Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London, London, UK; Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK; University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway
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- Meriläinen, Eija, 1987- (author)
- Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London, London, UK; Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- 2021-11-22
- 2021
- English.
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In: Global Health Promotion. - : Sage Publications. - 1757-9759 .- 1757-9767. ; 29:3, s. 5-13
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Abstract
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- Communities are powerful and necessary agents for defining and pursuing their health, but outside organizations often adopt community health promotion approaches that are patronizing and top-down. Conversely, bottom-up approaches that build on and mobilize community health assets are often critiqued for tasking the most vulnerable and marginalized communities to use their own limited resources without real opportunities for change. Taking into consideration these community health promotion shortcomings, this article asks how communities may be most effectively and appropriately supported in pursuing their health. This article reviews how community health is understood, moving from negative to positive conceptualizations; how it is determined, moving from a risk-factor orientation to social determination; and how it is promoted, moving from top-down to bottom-up approaches. Building on these understandings, we offer the concept of ‘resourcefulness’ as an approach to strengthen positive health for communities, and we discuss how it engages with three interrelated tensions in community health promotion: resources and sustainability, interdependence and autonomy, and community diversity and inclusion. We make practical suggestions for outside organizations to apply resourcefulness as a process-based, place-based, and relational approach to community health promotion, arguing that resourcefulness can forge new pathways to sustainable and self-sustaining community positive health.
Subject headings
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- assets/protective factors
- capacity building (including competencies)
- communities
- empowerment/power
- equity/social justice
- health promotion
- policy/politics
- salutogenesis
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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