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Using health promotion frameworks to effectively address health inequalities
Author(s) -
Awofeso Niyi
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
health promotion journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 2201-1617
pISSN - 1036-1073
DOI - 10.1071/he03144a
Subject(s) - health promotion , population health , inequality , health economics , public health , social determinants of health , health policy , community health , promotion (chess) , public relations , health equity , medicine , economic growth , environmental health , political science , public economics , nursing , economics , politics , mathematical analysis , mathematics , law
Health promotion frameworks have been criticised as, paradoxically, exacerbating health inequalities. First, critics assert that while the roles of institutional, economic, social and environmental factors in health inequalities are recognised by health promotion workers, strategy implementation invariably concentrates on the relatively ‘soft targets’ of biological and behavioural risk factors. Such selective strategy implementation is said to promote the health of the rich, who are less constrained by structural factors, much more than it does the poor.