“Health care can be either people empowering in the sense that it gives people greater control over the factors that influence their health and their lives, as well as greater leverage over public institutions and leaders. Or it can be people disempowering. People empowering health care utilizes health education, not to change people's attitudes and behaviour, but rather to help people to change their world.”

David Werner
www.healthwrights.org

Health is a word loaded with meaning and with good reason. However health is all too often narrowly defined on an individual level as the absence of illness. I believe that there is a very real need to analyze and understand health on a community level.