Health and Well-Being

2019 ◽  
pp. 156-176
Author(s):  
Brian D. Christens
Keyword(s):  
Health Equity ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Community Power ◽  
Community Power Structures ◽  
Direct Outcome ◽  
Health And Well Being

Chapter 7 distinguishes multiple hypothesized pathways through which empowerment processes produce impacts on health and well-being. The most direct outcome of empowerment processes is that social power is built and exercised. When this occurs, there are benefits for the participants in those processes, who often experience reduced stress and isolation. Empowerment processes also often lead to changes in policies and systems, thereby addressing systemic inequities and contributing to community well-being. Moreover, since empowerment processes can alter community power structures and make them more egalitarian, this may in itself lead to reduced vulnerability and insecurity and greater trust and cohesion. This chapter delineates multiple pathways—participant, ecological, and pluralist—through which empowerment processes can promote health, well-being, and health equity.

scholarly journals HESR innovation in analysis that supports decision making and action

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
B Barr
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Status Report ◽  
Policy Performance ◽  
European Health ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Inform Decision Making

Abstract The European Health Equity Status Report makes innovative use of microdata, at the level of the individual, to decompose the relative contributions of five essential underlying conditions to inequities in health and well-being. These essential conditions comprise: (1) Health services (2) Income security and social protection (3) Living conditions (4) Social and human capital (5) Employment and working conditions. Combining microdata across over twenty sources, the work of HESRi has also produced disaggregated indicators in health, well-being, and each of the five essential conditions. In conjunction with indicators of policy performance and investment, the HESRi Health Equity Dataset of over 100 indicators is the first of its kind, as a resource for monitoring and analysing inequities across the essential conditions and policies to inform decision making and action to reduce gaps in health and well-being.

Community Power, Power Studies and the Sociology of Knowledge

1970 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 204-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Curtis ◽  
John Petras
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Community Power ◽  
Knowledge Perspective ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Power Studies ◽  
Community Power Structures

American social scientists have long been interested in community power structures, but most methodological and substantive developments in this area of research have occurred only in the past fifteen years or so. The published social science literature bearing on this topic now includes well over six hundred items written primarily by political scientists and sociologists. There have been over eighty systematic attempts to present an overall, composite description of the structure of power in particular communities; this research will be our central concern in this paper. These studies are accompanied in the literature by hundreds of critiques of methodological approaches, attempts at conceptual refinement, studies of narrower facets of community political processes, and reviews and commentaries on particular studies. The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to consider the field of community power from a sociology of knowledge perspective by extending the discussion in an earlier research note, and secondly, to point to some procedural guides that seem appropriate for use in further research in this and other areas characterized by "chronic controversies."

Power Structure and its Communication Behavior in San José, Costa Rica

1967 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold T. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Power Structure ◽  
Standard Technique ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Communication Behavior ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Community Power ◽  
Power Studies ◽  
Community Power Structures ◽  
Problem Solving Process

The word “community” has been defined as a “structuring of elements and dimensions to solve problems which must be or can be solved within the local area.” This problem-solving process by which the community is directed, segmented, and formed into a structure has been the basis of many community power studies. Floyd Hunter was among the first to study this process, employing what has been termed the reputational method of community study. This method is now considered a standard technique for determining community power structures. It consists of a series of interviews with selected community knowledgeables who are asked to name the most influential individuals in the area. This is followed by a second round of interviews with those influentials who received the highest number of “votes” or mentions from the knowledgeables, asking them for a similar listing in order to rank the group of influentials according to their power in the community.

Rational Choice and Community Power Structures

1995 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Dowding ◽  
Patrick Dunleavy ◽  
Desmond King ◽  
Helen Margetts
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Regime Theory ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Comprehensive Investigation ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Community Power ◽  
Urban Contexts ◽  
Complementary Techniques ◽  
Community Power Structures

The community power debate concluded with each side believing they had won. Political theorists have generalized power, making empirical investigation very difficult; urban scholars have turned their attention to more manageable empirical problems. Rational choice advances the debate, exposing the errors of all sides and facilitating a new approach which transcends structural versus individualist methods. By separating various aspects of power in urban contexts, complementary techniques such as network analysis in a bargaining framework, semi-structured interviewing and the use of text databases permits a comprehensive investigation of agenda-setting and the mobilization of bias. The paper demonstrates the utility of this approach by comparing it to ‘regime theory’, the latest paradigm of urban research.

scholarly journals The Transformative Potential of Strategic Partnerships to Form a Health Equity Network of the Americas

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 153-158
Author(s):  
Michael A. Rodríguez ◽  
Michael G. Marmot ◽  
V. Nelly Salgado de Snyder ◽  
Luis A.C. Galvão ◽  
Ximena Avellaneda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Equity ◽  
Health Inequities ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Strategic Partnerships ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
Optimal Health ◽  
At Risk Populations ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
Health And Well Being

Health inequities across the Americas are avoidable and unjust yet continue to persist. Systemic social determinants of health, which could be addressed at the policy level, are root causes of many inequities and prevent marginalized individuals and at-risk populations from reaching optimal health and well-being. In this article, we describe our approach to promote health equity through the intersectoral partner­ships that were forged, and strategies that were shared, during the convening entitled “Summit 2017: Health Equity in the Americas” and the resulting emergence of the Health Equity Network of the Americas (HENA). We illustrate how this international network will raise awareness of policies and programs to inform decision makers about actions they can take to put an end to the unjust, persistent and mostly avoid­able health inequities facing the Americas today.Ethn Dis. 2019;29(Suppl 1):153-158; doi:10.18865/ed.29.S1.153.

scholarly journals IFAS Community Development: Identifying Local Power Structures, The Positional Approach

EDIS ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 2006 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark A. Brennan
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Local Power ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Fact Sheet ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Community Power ◽  
Community Power Structures ◽  
Suggested Reading

FCS9256, a 3-page fact sheet by M.A. Brennan, is part of a series of discussions on community development. This paper focuses on the positional approach to identifying community power structures. It discusses the assumptions, procedures for application,, types of leaders identified, and the advantages and disadvantages of this approach. Includes references and suggested reading. Published by the UF Department of Family Youth and Community Sciences, July 2006.

scholarly journals IFAS Community Development: Identifying Local Power Structures, The Social Participation/Social Activity Approach

EDIS ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 2006 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark A. Brennan
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Local Power ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Community Power ◽  
The Social ◽  
Community Power Structures ◽  
Suggested Reading

FCS9259, a 2-page fact sheet by M.A. Brennan, is part of a series of discussions on community development. This paper focuses on the social participation approach to identifying community power structures. It discusses the assumptions, the procedures for application, the types of leaders identified, and the advantages and disadvantages of this approach. Includes references and suggested reading. Published by the UF Department of Family Youth and Community Sciences, July 2006.

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