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Social Work Practice
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- Title: Social Work Practice: One Avenue of Health Promotion
- Author(s): Maria Huddleston, Deborah West
- Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
- Collection: Common Ground Research Networks
- Series: Health, Wellness & Society
- Journal Title: The International Journal of Health, Wellness, and Society
- Keywords: Social Work, Empowerment, Health Promotion, Allied-health
- Volume: 1
- Issue: 4
- Date: January 19, 2012
- ISSN: 2156-8960 (Print)
- ISSN: 2156-9053 (Online)
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18848/2156-8960/CGP/v01i04/41164
- Citation: Huddleston, Maria, and Deborah West. 2012. "Social Work Practice: One Avenue of Health Promotion." The International Journal of Health, Wellness, and Society 1 (4): 11-18. doi:10.18848/2156-8960/CGP/v01i04/41164.
- Extent: 8 pages
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Abstract
Social work knowledges can promote health and wellbeing by fostering an avenue of empowerment for individuals to take control over their health. Empowerment approaches are relevant in facilitating an avenue where individuals feel they have the ability to maintain good health and overcome structural inequalities within the health care system. This presentation is based on particular social work empowerment approaches which promote health and wellbeing among individuals.
