TY - BOOK ID - 8433118 TI - Health Assets in a Global Context : Theory, Methods, Action AU - Morgan, Antony. AU - Ziglio, Erio. AU - Davies, Maggie. PY - 2010 SN - 1489999299 1441959203 9786612928345 1282928341 1441959211 PB - New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Community health services. KW - Delivery of health care. KW - Medical care -- United States. KW - Medical care KW - Health promotion KW - Health planning KW - Community health services KW - Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services KW - Regional Health Planning KW - Health Status KW - Preventive Health Services KW - Delivery of Health Care KW - Health Promotion KW - Health Status Disparities KW - Community Health Planning KW - Healthcare Disparities KW - Health Planning KW - Demography KW - Patient Care Management KW - Health Services KW - Health Care KW - Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation KW - Population Characteristics KW - Health Care Economics and Organizations KW - Epidemiologic Measurements KW - Social Sciences KW - Health Services Administration KW - Public Health KW - Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena KW - Environment and Public Health KW - Medicine KW - Public Health - General KW - Medicine - General KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Medicine. KW - Public health. KW - Practice. KW - Community health KW - Health services KW - Hygiene, Public KW - Hygiene, Social KW - Public health services KW - Public hygiene KW - Sanitary affairs KW - Social hygiene KW - Medical practice KW - Practice of medicine KW - Clinical sciences KW - Medical profession KW - Health promotion. KW - Health administration. KW - Medicine & Public Health. KW - Public Health. KW - Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. KW - Health Administration. KW - Health KW - Human services KW - Biosecurity KW - Health literacy KW - Medicine, Preventive KW - National health services KW - Sanitation KW - Human biology KW - Life sciences KW - Medical sciences KW - Pathology KW - Physicians KW - Physician practice acquisitions KW - Practice of medicine. KW - Health Workforce KW - Health promotion programs KW - Health promotion services KW - Promotion of health KW - Wellness programs KW - Preventive health services KW - Health education UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8433118 AB - Health Assets in a Global Context: Theory, Methods, Action Edited by Antony Morgan, Maggie Davies, and Erio Ziglio As global health inequities continue to widen, policymakers are redoubling their efforts to address them. Yet the effectiveness and quality of these programs vary considerably, sometimes resulting in the reverse of expected outcomes. While local political issues or cultural conflicts may play a part in these situations, an important new book points to a universal factor: the prevailing deficit model of assessing health needs, which puts disadvantaged communities on the defensive while ignoring their potential strengths. The asset model proposed in Health Assets in a Global Context offers a necessary complement to the problem-focused framework by assessing multiple levels of health-promoting aspects in populations, and promoting joint solutions between communities and outside agencies. The book provides not only rationales and methodologies (e.g., measuring resilience and similar elusive qualities) but also concrete examples of asset-based initiatives in use across the world on the individual and community levels, including: • Strengthening the assets of disadvantaged women (Germany). • Sustainable community-based development programs (India). • Using parental assets to control child malaria (West Africa). • Asset/evidence-based health promotion in the schools (Romania). • Evaluating asset-based programs (Latin America). • Using social capital to promote health equity (Australia). Health Assets in a Global Context offers a new, positive lens for viewing the world’s most resistant public health crises, making it fundamental reading for researchers and graduate students in public health, especially those involved in health promotion, health disparities, social determinants of health, and global health. ER -