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Advancing Health Rights and Tackling Inequalities

Interrogating Community Development and Participatory Praxis

Author: Neil Quinn, Anuj Kapilashrami and Abhijit Das  

Advancing Health Rights and Tackling Inequalities
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In our post-pandemic world, the international community and national governments are searching for new solutions to build healthy and resilient societies. This timely book focuses on community participation in building healthier populations, with practical examples from the Global North and South.

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In our post-pandemic world, the international community and national governments are searching for new solutions to build healthy and resilient societies. This timely book focuses on community participation in building healthier populations, with practical examples from the Global North and South.

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In our post-pandemic world, the international community and national governments are searching for new solutions to build healthy and resilient societies.

This timely book focuses on community participation in building healthier populations, placing people at the heart of such planning and solutions in both the Global North and South. Drawing on international research and practical examples, it addresses the role and potential of community development in addressing inequalities and restoring the right to health.

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“Social and health inequalities worldwide have never been so great. These crises have many economic and policy causes, yet perhaps the greatest systemic problem is the lack of public engagement in co-creating solutions. This fine and wise book shows how communities can participate and make changes that improve lives. A superb insight into how to create better futures.” Jules Pretty, University of Essex


“I strongly recommend this rich, accessible, interdisciplinary, challenging book. It comes from the head and heart. Theory and praxis. Professional and personal. Intersectionality and decoloniality are woven throughout to offer a distinctive gaze to several mainstream discourses on participation and health rights. It’s replete with instructive case studies. The authors focus on health, but they speak to anyone committed to a more just world.” Paul Hunt, first UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health & Chief Commissioner for New Zealand Human Rights Commission

"This comprehensive overview of community development and collective action for health justice creatively bridges theory and practice. The focus on countervailing power from below offers a timely counterpoint - both to top-down approaches to community consultation and to the conventional framing of social determinants of health in terms of individual characteristics." Jonathan Fox, American University

“Understanding who has power, how it is used, and how power relationships can be changed, has never been more important for those of us seeking to reduce health inequalities. This book provides an essential guide to that urgent task." Gerry McCartney, University of Glasgow

"This engaging new book shines a spotlight on the power of grassroots, social movements for tackling inequalities, combining a fierce moral clarity with practical, road-tested strategies for achieving policy change. Drawing on decades of frontline organising, from Glasgow to New Delhi, the authors combine community-development theory, decolonial critique and hard-won activist wisdom into a compelling manifesto for navigating our poly-crisis age. Their intersectional lens, vivid case studies and unapologetic focus on power make this book an essential companion for anyone working to turn human-rights rhetoric into lived reality." Katherine Smith, University of Strathclyde

"Advancing Health Rights and Tackling Inequalities is a deeply engaging entwining of experience with theory that dispenses with both the romanticism and cynicism that sometimes marks the discussion of participatory approaches to health rights and inequities. Its strength is the way it builds knowledge from diverse experiences in marginal spaces to offers a conceptually updated contemporary account enriched by captivating illustrations. This encounter with bottom-up resistance and engagement with health rights energizes as much as it challenges." Rakhal Gaitonde, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, India

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About the Author

Neil Quinn is Professor of Social Work and Health Equity and Founding Director of the Centre for Health Policy at the University of Strathclyde.

Anuj Kapilashrami is Professor & Chair in Health Policy & Equity at the School of Health & Social Care, University of Essex and Senior Lecturer in Global Health, Queen Mary University London.

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Product Details

Publisher
Bristol University Press | Policy Press
Published
21st May 2025
Pages
240
ISBN
9781447361404

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