Healthy Communities - meeting the shared challenge: understanding a community-led approach to health improvement

This 2008 paper sets out to explore the character of the community-led health approach and the contribution that it makes to health improvement and addressing health inequalities. It gives particular emphasis to understanding the central role of development support that seeks to empower communities as architects of actions that impact on their own health. At the heart of the exploration lie models that illustrate the logic of the way in which, to achieve desired outcomes, resources are deployed, development support is offered and action is taken.

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