title: Advocacy for community self-empowerment.
abstract: At the heart of the movement toward health care for all by the year 2000 lies an important central theme: community self-empowerment. When a community is able to choose strategies for health based on appropriate information, local resources, accessible support and institutional, organizational and social approval, it can be described as empowered. Such a community's health care is then considered to be self-determined, an enviable state of affairs, and one which is in accord with the goals of primary health care.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Western Australian College of Advanced Education, Doubleview.
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authors.lastname: McMurray
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D003256:Community Participation; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D011057:Politics; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012932:Social Facilitation