| Category | Overviews |
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| Keywords | overview, health |
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| Title | Health education and community empowerment: Conceptualizing and measuring perceptions of individual, organizational and community control |
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| Comments | This article examines the relationship between increased morbidity and mortality, social structures and environmental factors, refuting the dominant notion that health education must happen in terms of individual lifestyle choices. It presents a model incorporating the relationship among powerlessness/empowerment, social support and health status. The authors attend to empowerment at the individual, organizational and community level. They also assess potentials for and obstacles to a community empowerment approach to health education practices. |
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| Author(s) | Israel, B., B. Checkoway, A. Schulz and M. Zimmerman |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Appeared In | Health Education Quarterly #21 (vol. 2), pp. 149–170 |
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