Glenn Laverack
Biographic Data
| ID | 5409467 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Glenn Laverack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Glenn |
| FAMILY NAME | Laverack |
| SIGNATURE | LAVERACK G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6784-234X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Engaging with Migrant Communities: A Framework for Action
Migrants have disproportionately higher rates of morbidity and mortality when compared to the host population and this reflects the reality of health inequalities in many countries. It is imperative to engage with communities to identify their needs and to include these in the delivery of public health programs and health care services. The aim of this paper is to outline a new approach that systematically ensures that vulnerable groups, such as …
The Role of Health Promotion in Disease Outbreaks and Health Emergencies
Health promotion has a key role to play in disease outbreaks and health emergencies because it can offer well-established bottom-up approaches that engage with people to be an active part of a response. International agencies did learn from their earlier mistakes in, for example, the recent Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, even though an attempt to engage with communities was not initially widely implemented. Many agencies preferred to use pr…
Health activism
What remains for the future: Strengthening community actions to become an integral part of health promotion practice
To mark the 25th anniversary of the Ottawa Charter, this paper will discuss what remains to be achieved in strengthening community actions as an integral part of health promotion practice. To do this, the paper discusses four key elements for the future of health promotion programmes: (1) engage communities to share priorities; (2) build community capacity; (3) mechanisms for flexible and transparent funding; and (4) being creative in order to ex…
Community participation: Lessons for maternal, newborn, and child health
Building capable communities: Experiences in a rural Fijian context
This paper discusses the design of a methodology for 'building capable communities' in a health promotion programme context. The design of the methodology builds upon previous work and offers a new approach, through the use of nine 'operational domains', for the assessment and strategic planning of community empowerment. The purpose is to go beyond the rhetoric of participation and empowerment, and to provide a better understanding of how communi…
Qualitative Research in a Cross-Cultural Context: Fijian Experiences
In this article, the authors discuss the experiences of conducting qualitative research in traditional Fijian communities. This provided the setting for the cross-cultural exchange between the researcher and research participants and from which the authors draw important considerations for the design of future qualitative studies. In particular, the authors discuss the need to adapt essentially Western research designs to accommodate different cr…
Evaluating community capacity: Evaluating community capacity
The aim of the present study was to examine the convergence of two approaches used to assess community capacity in health promotion interventions. One was used to examine women and men in rural communities in Fiji, and the other to study women only in rural communities in Nepal. Both approaches used a set of 'capacity domains', a ranking scale and a means of visually representing the findings. The experiences of using each approach, and the stren…
Community Capacity Building: A Parallel Track for Health Promotion Programs
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 promotion in Sundsvall, Adelaide and Jakarta have acted to…
Capacity building in health promotion, Part 2: Whose use? And with what measurement
Capacity building has been a topic in health promotion literature for several years. In our previous article, we discussed community capacity building as both means and end in health promotion work, and reviewed seven theoretical and empirical models of community capacity which provide a total of nine separate capacity domains. In this article we discuss the parallel tracking of community capacity building in health-promotion program planning, im…
Capacity building in health promotion, Part 1: For whom? And for what purpose
Capacity building has been a topic in health promotion literature for several years. Similar constructs that preceded it include community development and community empowerment. More recent constructs, notably social capital and social cohesion, make roughly similar claims on the same social space. This space essentially describes elements of peoples' day-to-day relationships, conditioned and constrained by economic and political practices, that …
A planning framework for community empowerment goals within health promotion
Health promotion often comprises a tension between 'bottom-up' and 'top-down' programming. The former, more associated with concepts of community empowerment, begins on issues of concern to particular groups or individuals, and regards some improvement in their overall power or capacity as the important health outcome. The latter, more associated with disease prevention efforts, begins by seeking to involve particular groups or individuals in iss…
Participatory learning materials for health promotion in Ghana--a case study
This paper reports on operational research carried out by the Kumasi Health Education Project in Ghana to study the utilisation of participatory/empowerment learning methods for health promotion. The Project used community-based workshops to develop an extensive range of participatory materials on child health and followed these up with in-service training of 367 teachers and 157 public health workers (nurses and environmental health officers). A…
Evaluating community capacity: Evaluating community capacity
The aim of the present study was to examine the convergence of two approaches used to assess community capacity in health promotion interventions. One was used to examine women and men in rural communities in Fiji, and the other to study women only in rural communities in Nepal. Both approaches used a set of 'capacity domains', a ranking scale and a means of visually representing the findings. The experiences of using each approach, and the stren…
Community Capacity Building: A Parallel Track for Health Promotion Programs
Qualitative Research in a Cross-Cultural Context: Fijian Experiences
In this article, the authors discuss the experiences of conducting qualitative research in traditional Fijian communities. This provided the setting for the cross-cultural exchange between the researcher and research participants and from which the authors draw important considerations for the design of future qualitative studies. In particular, the authors discuss the need to adapt essentially Western research designs to accommodate different cr…
Participatory learning materials for health promotion in Ghana--a case study
This paper reports on operational research carried out by the Kumasi Health Education Project in Ghana to study the utilisation of participatory/empowerment learning methods for health promotion. The Project used community-based workshops to develop an extensive range of participatory materials on child health and followed these up with in-service training of 367 teachers and 157 public health workers (nurses and environmental health officers). A…
A planning framework for community empowerment goals within health promotion
Health promotion often comprises a tension between 'bottom-up' and 'top-down' programming. The former, more associated with concepts of community empowerment, begins on issues of concern to particular groups or individuals, and regards some improvement in their overall power or capacity as the important health outcome. The latter, more associated with disease prevention efforts, begins by seeking to involve particular groups or individuals in iss…
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 promotion in Sundsvall, Adelaide and Jakarta have acted to…
Capacity building in health promotion, Part 2: Whose use? And with what measurement
Capacity building has been a topic in health promotion literature for several years. In our previous article, we discussed community capacity building as both means and end in health promotion work, and reviewed seven theoretical and empirical models of community capacity which provide a total of nine separate capacity domains. In this article we discuss the parallel tracking of community capacity building in health-promotion program planning, im…
Capacity building in health promotion, Part 1: For whom? And for what purpose
Capacity building has been a topic in health promotion literature for several years. Similar constructs that preceded it include community development and community empowerment. More recent constructs, notably social capital and social cohesion, make roughly similar claims on the same social space. This space essentially describes elements of peoples' day-to-day relationships, conditioned and constrained by economic and political practices, that …
Evaluating community capacity: Evaluating community capacity
The aim of the present study was to examine the convergence of two approaches used to assess community capacity in health promotion interventions. One was used to examine women and men in rural communities in Fiji, and the other to study women only in rural communities in Nepal. Both approaches used a set of 'capacity domains', a ranking scale and a means of visually representing the findings. The experiences of using each approach, and the stren…
Community Capacity Building: A Parallel Track for Health Promotion Programs
Building capable communities: Experiences in a rural Fijian context
This paper discusses the design of a methodology for 'building capable communities' in a health promotion programme context. The design of the methodology builds upon previous work and offers a new approach, through the use of nine 'operational domains', for the assessment and strategic planning of community empowerment. The purpose is to go beyond the rhetoric of participation and empowerment, and to provide a better understanding of how communi…
Qualitative Research in a Cross-Cultural Context: Fijian Experiences
In this article, the authors discuss the experiences of conducting qualitative research in traditional Fijian communities. This provided the setting for the cross-cultural exchange between the researcher and research participants and from which the authors draw important considerations for the design of future qualitative studies. In particular, the authors discuss the need to adapt essentially Western research designs to accommodate different cr…
Community participation: Lessons for maternal, newborn, and child health
What remains for the future: Strengthening community actions to become an integral part of health promotion practice
To mark the 25th anniversary of the Ottawa Charter, this paper will discuss what remains to be achieved in strengthening community actions as an integral part of health promotion practice. To do this, the paper discusses four key elements for the future of health promotion programmes: (1) engage communities to share priorities; (2) build community capacity; (3) mechanisms for flexible and transparent funding; and (4) being creative in order to ex…
Health activism
The Role of Health Promotion in Disease Outbreaks and Health Emergencies
Health promotion has a key role to play in disease outbreaks and health emergencies because it can offer well-established bottom-up approaches that engage with people to be an active part of a response. International agencies did learn from their earlier mistakes in, for example, the recent Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, even though an attempt to engage with communities was not initially widely implemented. Many agencies preferred to use pr…
Engaging with Migrant Communities: A Framework for Action
Migrants have disproportionately higher rates of morbidity and mortality when compared to the host population and this reflects the reality of health inequalities in many countries. It is imperative to engage with communities to identify their needs and to include these in the delivery of public health programs and health care services. The aim of this paper is to outline a new approach that systematically ensures that vulnerable groups, such as …
Medicine (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Community Health and Development (10 works) · Nursing (10 works) · Health promotion (9 works) · Public health (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Health Policy Implementation Science (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Psychology (6 works)