Empowerment of Women for Promoting Health and Quality of Life

Empowerment of Women for Promoting Health and Quality of Life critically reviews the key theoretical and empirical foundations and policy options for Global Public Health (GPH). The author presents the lessons learned from a meta-analysis of 80 self-organized, successful women's empowerment
case studies across the world that have enhanced the health and well-being of their families and communities. The information gleaned offers rare opportunities for understanding what works, how women empower themselves, and how others--professionals included--can help. Additionally, Dr. Kar designs
an EMPOWER model for empowerment of women for GPH and human development. Using an ecological perspective, the model defines the domains, dimensions, and processes of empowerment, and is applied to a community-based women's empowerment-for-health-promotion initiative. The implications for
empowerment and GPH policy, practice, and research are also discussed.


Author: Snehendu B. Kar
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 05/05/2017
Pages: 624
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.16lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780199384662

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2019

About the Author

Snehendu B. Kar, MSc, MPH, DrPH, is a Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Chair, Associate Dean, and Chair Emeritus of the Fielding School of Public Health; the Founding Director of MPH for Health Professionals Program in Community Health Sciences at the Fielding School of Public Health; and Professor Emeritus of Public Health and Asian American Studies at UCLA.

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