Young people and health: Towards a new conceptual framework for understanding empowerment:

摘要: In recent times, empowerment has become the focus of much work with young people amidst increasing concerns about their health. Empowerment is often offered as a ‘solution’ to such concerns, uncritical assumption being made that unproblematically results in positive health outcomes. While promotion literature advocates ‘empowerment’, it does so without offering clear conceptualisation word itself or indeed addressing thorny theoretical tensions surrounding concept’s root power. light this omission, article offers more theoretically informed and considers relationship people’s This outlines dynamic generative than hitherto articulated literature, by Lukes’ multidimensional perspective Drawing on findings from an ethnographic study health, develops ...