Revitalising the evidence base for public health: an assets model
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Revitalising the evidence base for public health: an assets model.
Historically, approaches to the promotion of population health have been based on a deficit model. That is, they tend to focus on identifying the problems and needs of populations that require professional resources and high levels of dependence on hospital and welfare services. These deficit models are important and necessary to identify levels of needs and priorities. But they need to be comp...
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عنوان ژورنال: Promotion & Education
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1025-3823
DOI: 10.1177/10253823070140020701x