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Empowerment
About: Empowerment is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 42112 publications have been published within this topic receiving 752953 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed evidence of nutritional effects of programs in four sectors (agriculture, social safety nets, early child development, and schooling) and found that the nutritional effect of agricultural programs is inconclusive.
1,181 citations
TL;DR: Given the importance and currency of these concepts of powerlessness and empowerment, a model of empowerment education is proposed for health-promotion practitioners.
Abstract: Purpose and Scope. This article reviews the health and social science research relevant to both the role of powerlessness as a risk factor for disease, and the role of empowerment as a health-enhancing strategy. The research literature surveyed includes studies that address these key concepts from the fields of social epidemiology, occupational health, stress research, social psychology, community psychology, social support and networks, community competence and community organizing. Definitions are provided to operationalize these sometimes loosely-applied terms. Important Findings. Powerlessness, or lack of control over destiny, emerges as a broad-based risk factor for disease. Empowerment, though more difficult to evaluate, can also be demonstrated as an important promoter of health. Major Conclusions. Given the importance and currency of these concepts of powerlessness and empowerment, a model of empowerment education is proposed for health-promotion practitioners. Measurement of empowerment ...
1,146 citations
TL;DR: The meaning and significance of the empowerment concept and problems associated with the proliferation of interest in empowerment are reviewed and synopses of each article are presented along with some of the themes and lessons cutting across the frameworks, studies, and applications.
Abstract: This introduction to the special issue briefly reviews the meaning and significance of the empowerment concept and problems associated with the proliferation of interest in empowerment. We identify some of the topics not included in this issue and relate those to the many broad and diverse areas of psychological empowerment theory and community-based research and intervention that are covered. We present synopses of each article along with some of the themes and lessons cutting across the frameworks, studies, and applications. These include a wide diversity of settings, fairly representative of empowerment interventions, and, at the same time, improved clarity (if not unanimity) of definitions and measurement, which has been a problem in much empowerment research and intervention.
1,128 citations
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01 Nov 1993TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the role of the state in gender planning and its role in the family, the household, and the state's role in women empowerment in the Third World.
Abstract: 1. Introduction 2. Gender roles, the family and the household 3. Practical and strategic gender needs and the role of the state 4. Third World policy approaches to women in development 5. Towards gender planning 6. The institutionalization of gender planning 7. Operational procedures for implementing gender policies, programmes and projects 8. Training and strategies for gender planning 9. Towards an emancipation approach
1,112 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, an empowerment framework is proposed as a suitable mechanism for aiding analysis of the social, economic, psychological, and political impacts of ecotourism on local communities.
1,086 citations