Health Assets in a Global Context

Conceptualising the Notion of Health Assets.- Revitalising the Public Health Evidence Base: An Asset Model.- A Salutogenic Approach to Tackling Health Inequalities.- A Theoretical Model of Assets: The Link Between Biology and the Social Structure.- Asset Mapping in Communities.- Assets Based Interventions: Evaluating and Synthesizing Evidence of the Effectiveness of the Assets Based Approach to Health Promotion.- Building an Evidence Base on Assets and Health.- Resilience as an Asset for Healthy Development.- How to Assess Resilience: Reflections on a Measurement Model.- Measuring Children's Well-Being: Some Problems and Possibilities.- The Relationship Between Health Assets, Social Capital and Cohesive Communities.- Health Assets in Action.- Community Empowerment and Health Improvement: The English Experience.- Strengthening the Assets of Women Living in Disadvantaged Situations: The German Experience.- Sustainable Community-Based Health and Development Programs in Rural India.- The Application and Evaluation of an Assets-Based Model in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Experience with the Healthy Settings Approach.- Parents and Communities' Assets to Control Under-Five Child Malaria in Rural Benin, West Africa.- Health Assets and Public Policy.- Strengthening Asset Focused Policy Making in Hungary.- How Forms of Social Capital Can Be an Asset for Promoting Health Equity.- Internal and External Assets and Romanian Adolescents' Health: An Evidence-Based Approach to Health Promoting Schools Policy.- Bringing It All Together: The Salutogenic Response to Some of the Most Pertinent Public Health Dilemmas.

Maggie DaviesMaggie Davies is the Principal Advisor on International Health Improvement at the Department of Health, England. She is on secondment from the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) where she is Associate Director of Development. Maggie is also the lead tutor on the Distance Learning MSc in Health Promotion for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Maggie is President of the Pan-European network Eurohealthnet, which deals with equity and health issues, and is Global Vice President for Conferences for the International Union of Health Promotion and Education.Previously a lecturer in semiotics, Maggie has over 20 years experience of work in the field of public health which has ranged from managing local services to large-scale international projects. This includes work for organisations such as World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank.Maggie has also been a volunteer for non-government agencies and has been a Director of the Terrence Higgins Trust and Rape Crisis, Croydon.Maggie has a record of publication in the field and most recently has edited two books for the Oxford University Press on Health Promotion Theory and Practice.Maggie has post graduate qualifications in health management and is a fellow of the Faculty of Public Health.Antony MorganAntony Morgan is an Epidemiologist and is currently an Associate Director at the Centre for Public Health Excellence, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), England. Originally an applied chemist, Antony later trained in information science and epidemiology and has worked in Public Health in the English NHS for the last 25 years, at district, regional and national level. Antony is a Fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health and has Honorary Research Appointments at the Universities of Hertfordshire and Edinburgh. At NICE he is currently responsible for producing public health guidance across a range of public health topic areas, including

From the reviews:

"This book explains the assets-based approach to improving the health of communities and reducing inequalities through research and practice. ... It is intended to challenge researchers', policymakers', and practitioners' thinking about improving health and reducing health inequalities of populations." (Jared Lane K. Maeda, Doody's Review Service, October, 2010)

"The basic idea behind this edited volume is to encourage researchers to quantify and value (and policy makers to protect) the full range of institutional and psychological assets globally possessed by individuals, communities, and populations, thus promoting the World Health Organization Assets for Health and Development Program. ... provide a useful summary of the salutogenic approach, focusing on resilience and empowerment." (Thomas A. Faunce, Journal of the American Medical Association, March, 2011)