Assignment 1 - Essay: Empowerment and public health practice 3000 words, 40% ‘Practitioners need to recognise that an empowering public health practice is a political activity’ (Laverack 2016:66) What...

Assignment 1 - Essay: Empowerment and public health practice


3000 words, 40%
‘Practitioners need to recognise that an empowering public health practice is a political activity’ (Laverack 2016:66)


What does Laverack mean by this?  Your assignment should:


•       Explain what empowering public health practice is


•       Demonstrate an understanding of political activity in the context of empowering communities


•       Analyse the role of the public health practitioner


•       Demonstrate an understanding of the social determinants of health