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Community Empowerment as a tool for health promotion

10 January 2023, Version 1
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This content is an early or alternative research output and has not been peer-reviewed by Cambridge University Press at the time of posting.

Abstract

The common definition of empowerment in health care is a process that allows people to gain greater control over the decisions and actions that affect their lives. Community empowerment enables communities to increase control over their lives. In essence, people within a community (be it those within a certain geographical area or those that identify as a community because of similar lifestyles, common interests, common concerns, or identities) gain power over decisions with an influential part of their lives. Community empowerment re-negotiates power to gain more control.

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Jan 10, 2023 Version 1

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DOI

10.33774/coe-2023-clplt
D O I: 10.33774/coe-2023-clplt [opens in a new tab]

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