Health Education and Community Empowerment: Conceptualizing and Measuring Perceptions of Individual, Organizational, and Community Control
- 1 June 1994
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Health Education Quarterly
- Vol. 21 (2) , 149-170
- https://doi.org/10.1177/109019819402100203
Abstract
The fundamental conditions and resources for health are peace, shelter, edu cation, food, income, a stable ecosystem, sustainable resources, social justice, and equity. Improvement in health requires a secure foundation in these basic prerequisites.1Keywords
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