@article{ref1,
title="Power, control, communities and health inequalities I: theories, concepts and analytical frameworks",
journal="Health promotion international",
year="2020",
author="Popay, Jennie and Whitehead, Margaret and Ponsford, Ruth and Egan, Matt and Mead, Rebecca",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="This is Part I of a three-part series on community empowerment as a route to greater health equity. We argue that community 'empowerment' approaches in the health field  are increasingly restricted to an inward gaze on community psycho-social capacities  and proximal neighbourhood conditions, neglecting the outward gaze on political and  social transformation for greater equity embedded in foundational statements on  health promotion. We suggest there are three imperatives if these approaches are to  contribute to increased equity. First, to understand pathways from empowerment to  health equity and drivers of the depoliticisation of contemporary empowerment  practices. Second, to return to the original concept of empowerment processes that  support communities of place/interest to develop capabilities needed to exercise  collective control over decisions and actions in the pursuit of social justice. Third, to understand, and engage with, power dynamics in community settings. Based  on our longitudinal evaluation of a major English community empowerment initiative  and research on neighbourhood resilience, we propose two complementary frameworks to  support these shifts. The Emancipatory Power Framework presents collective control  capabilities as forms of positive power. The Limiting Power Framework elaborates  negative forms of power that restrict the development and exercise of a community's  capabilities for collective control. Parts II and III of this series present  empirical findings on the operationalization of these frameworks. Part II focuses on  qualitative markers of shifts in emancipatory power in BL communities and Part III  explores how power dynamics unfolded in these neighbourhoods.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0957-4824",
doi="10.1093/heapro/daaa133",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaa133"
}