title: An innovative geographical approach: health promotion and empowerment in a context of extreme urban poverty.
abstract: This article describes and analyses a territorial intervention, the Vila Paciencia Initiative--a local development/health promotion programme implemented in a context of extreme poverty in the western district of Rio de Janeiro. The main goal of the programme was to empower individuals and communities. We emphasise the lessons learned and the potential for integrating them into local and regional health services, which could strengthen community participation and capacity-building and improve the effectiveness and community orientation of primary health care and other public policies directed to geographical development.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Promoção da Saúde, CEDAPS, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. danielb@cedaps.org.br
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Becker
authors.forename: Kátia
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Edmundo
authors.forename: Nilza Rogéria
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Nunes
authors.forename: Daniella
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bonatto
authors.forename: Rosane
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: de Souza
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated; D005843:Geography; D006291:Health Policy; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D011203:Poverty; D011320:Primary Health Care; D014505:Urban Population