Social Equity and Equality, Empowerment, Inclusiveness: The Pillars of Public Health Promotion in Modern Societies
A special issue of Societies (ISSN 2075-4698).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 February 2023) | Viewed by 15188
Special Issue Editor
Interests: salutogenesis; sense of coherence; social capital; social determinants of health; neighborhoods; community; empowerment; social inequity; policies; politics; collaboration; inclusive processes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
For the last four decades, Health Promotion has made major contributions to public health research and practice. The Ottawa charter emphasizes the importance of strengthening individuals and community action, creating supportive environments, and building healthy public policy (WHO, 1986). However, alongside Health Promotion research and practice advances we can observe adverse societal developments. Increasing social inequality within and between societies negatively impacts population health. Matters of structural racism, stigma, and exclusion that have been highlighted in the public debate, but are yet to be resolved, continue to impact health and opportunities to participate in society. Increasing tension and polarization between societal groups adversely affect population health and impact the social determinants for health (SDoH) and social relationships.
In this light, it is unsurprising that Health Promotion regularly includes notions of empowerment, social inclusion, and equity. Health Promotion efforts in communities regularly apply strategies and pursue goals that are linked to empowerment and inclusion and counteract social inequality. Research on Health Promotion illustrates that matters of empowerment and inclusion are crucial for individual and collective health outcomes, as well as for sparking healthy societal developments in line with Health Promotion goals. Moreover, they play an important role in combating both the consequences and root causes of societal marginalization and inequality with respect to health and the SDoH.
In this Special Issue, we aim to deepen our knowledge about the role of empowerment, inclusion and social equity in health promotion research and practice. Understanding more about how these affect individual, community and population health and how they can be addressed and promoted through Health Promotion efforts can contribute to built theory and develop effective approaches for practice. Moreover, explicitly linking health promotion to matters of power, inclusion, and equality also implies that these matters might and should be addressed in the context of broader societal developments towards more equity, inclusion, and sustainability—as addressed in the sustainable development goals (UN, 2017), for example.
Accordingly, we would like to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue focusing on “Social Equity, Empowerment, Inclusiveness: The Pillars of Public Health Promotion in Modern Societies”. We welcome papers addressing issues linked to social equity, empowerment, and/or inclusiveness in the context of health promotion. This includes (but is not limited to) papers that describe and evaluate health promotion efforts at the individual, community, or societal level; outline beneficial approaches and strategies; address challenges and potential solutions with these approaches; and/or explore and discuss the theoretical foundations of Health Promotion and how it is linked to matters of Social equity, empowerment and/or inclusiveness, as well as inter-relations between those concepts.
In this Special Issue, Contributions must follow one of the three categories of papers, article, conceptual paper or review, of the journal and address the topic of the Special Issue.
Dr. Ruca Maass
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- social equality
- social equity
- empowerment
- inclusiveness
- inclusion
- health promotion
- public health
- health equity
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