A Community Empowerment Model through Pesantren-Based Family Empowerment Post (POSDAYA)

Preventing diabetes through community empowerment.

Preventive Behaviors of Malta Fever in Country Women: A Family-Based Empowerment Model

Aims: Brucellosis (Malta fever) is one of the most common zoonosis diseases. The role of the family in preventive behaviors against brucellosis is important, so this study was conducted to determine the relationship between preventative behaviors of brucellosis and family-based empowerment models in women in families with brucellosis patients in Iran. Instrument & Methods: 200 people participa...

Conceptualizing Organizational Domains of Community Empowerment through Empowerment Evaluation in Estonian Communities

The importance of community empowerment has been strongly emphasized in health promotion publications in Western societies. Only a few studies exist to highlight the empowerment processes in countries in transition in Eastern Europe. A multi-stage study was designed to develop a context-specific survey instrument appropriate for evaluating the changes in the community empowerment process within...

Rare family days: a family empowerment programme

Having a seriously ill child is intrusive for the entire family. Still, knowledge about how to manage family life for these families is limited, especially when the diagnosis is rare. To offer tools to cope with their situation, Rare Disorders Denmark (RDD) developed Rare Family Days (RFD). RFD is an empowerment programme targeted families with children carrying a rare disease. The programme pu...

Empowerment through Residence

[ABSTRACT What does it mean to empower people through the housing in which they live, and how is this empowerment to be achieved? These are the questions which are examined in this paper. Typologies of empowerment processes are devised in an attempt to make sense of the conceptual and empirical variety involved. The distinction between ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ empowerment orientations is argu...