Parents and Communities’ Assets to Control Under-Five Child Malaria in Rural Benin, West Africa

Houéto, David; Deccache, Alain

doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_14

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“…A good example of a participatory health initiative in a local rural context is described by Houéto and Deccache (2010). They see it as critical for assets-based approaches in communities to be firmly based in the local context, with community priority setting, and with participation in the form of real control to the community.…”

Section: Critical Public Health 171mentioning

confidence: 98%

Assets for well-being for women living in deep poverty: through a salutogenic looking-glass

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Kanyeka

2013

Critical Public Health

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This paper explores assets for health and well-being for women in extremely poor rural areas in Ghana, Haiti, India, the Philippines, and Tanzania. Data were collected through individual interviews and focus group interviews with local women. The paper asks (i) which assets women draw on for well-being in resource-poor settings, and (ii) whether an assets approach, as understood in the Salutogenic Model, is appropriate and meaningful in the most deprived areas. Low levels of natural, material and infrastructural resources were reported by the respondents to cause stress, and assets of a human, social and cultural character were identified as being important in coping with this stress. By mobilizing the capacity and assets of people and places, local development initiatives will make sense logically (comprehensibility), they will be perceived to be practically realistic (manageability), and they will be motivating because they are meaningful, based on involvement in decision-making (meaningfulness). The assets focus must co-exist with initiatives to improve distributional justice. We conclude that an asset approach to well-being is not only appropriate, but also necessary, in even the poorest contexts.

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Section: Critical Public Health 171mentioning

confidence: 98%