title: Community-building: a strategy to address inequality of health in Australia.
abstract: Given the improvements in the health of Australians in recent decades, not all sectors of populations have benefited equally. Inequality and poverty are major problems. Traditional hierarchical, top-down governance seems ineffective to address these complex problems. An innovative and more participatory community-based approach is called for to address these issues. Community-building approaches, characterized by wide-ranging community involvement, emphasizing strength and collaboration, can be a good vehicle and intervention strategy to address the poverty problem by empowering both the individual and the community. The relevance of the community-building approach to the poverty issue and Australian context is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. chiwai.ng@live.vu.edu.au
authors.forename: Eddie C W
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Ng
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D019058:Community Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011203:Poverty; D016730:Program Development