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

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...

Measuring community empowerment: a fresh look at organizational domains.

In 1986, the Ottawa Charter identified community empowerment as being a central theme of health promotion discourse. Community empowerment became a topical issue in the health promotion literature soon afterwards, though its roots also come from earlier literature in community psychology, community organizing and liberation education. Subsequent international conferences to address health promo...

Health education and community empowerment: conceptualizing and measuring perceptions of individual, organizational, and community control.

The prevailing emphasis in health education is on understanding and changing life-style choices and individual health behaviors related to health status. Although such approaches are appropriate for some health problems, they often ignore the association between increased morbidity and mortality and social, structural, and physical factors in the environment, such as inadequate housing, poor sa...

Preventing diabetes through community empowerment.

Organizational Empowerment and Systems Psychodynamics