Advancing Health Rights and Tackling Inequalities
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-6140-4 (ISBN)
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In a world facing multiple intersecting crises, the push for healthier, more resilient societies has never been more urgent. This timely book reveals how empowered and organised communities can lead this change. It offers policy makers, academics and activists research-driven insights, decolonial perspectives and real-world examples of organising and collective actions from across the global North and South.
By centring on the power of community development, participation and social movements, the book delivers actionable frameworks to tackle inequality and advance the right to health, making it an essential resource for anyone committed to health justice and for building equitable and sustainable health systems worldwide.
Anuj Kapilashrami is Professor and Chair in Health Policy and Equity and Director of the Centre for Global Health and Intersectional Equity Research at the University of Essex. Neil Quinn is Professor of Social Work and Health Equity and Founding Director of the Centre for Health Policy at the University of Strathclyde. Abhijit Das is Managing Trustee of the Centre for Health and Social Justice in New Delhi and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington.
Part 1
1. Introduction
2. History of community participation in public health – from primary care movement to UHC
3. ‘Communities’, Power, and Participation: Unpacking concepts from praxis
Part 2
4. Engaging communities at the Margins to tackle health inequities.
5. Sustaining action through Social Movements for the Right to Health
6. Addressing Political, Economic and Commercial Determinants of Health
7. Strengthening accountability for the realization of the right to health
Part 3
8. Community Activism in Action
9. The role of arts, social media and participatory action research in advancing health rights
10. Conclusion- Community organizing and collective action as Countervailing power for healthy and just societies.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 23.4.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Not illustrated |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4473-6140-7 / 1447361407 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4473-6140-4 / 9781447361404 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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