“Take Control or Lean Back?”: Barriers to Practicing Empowerment in Health Promotion

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 94-101

  Jacobs, Gaby ^a  

^a FONTYS UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

empowerment; health promotion; qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF EFFICACY;

EID: 79954996545     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839909353739     Document Type: Article

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