How can asset-based approaches reduce inequalities? Exploring processes of change in England and Spain
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.Asset-based approaches (ABAs) empower communities by valuing resources and skills. While fostering individual capacity, contextual factors influence their effectiveness in reducing health inequalities.
Area Of Science
- Community Health
- Health Equity Research
- Social Determinants of Health
Background
- Asset-based approaches (ABAs) are increasingly used to promote health and reduce inequalities in communities.
- Understanding the mechanisms and impact of ABAs on health inequalities remains limited.
Purpose Of The Study
- To explore how asset-based approaches influence practices, relationships, and resource redistribution to reduce health inequalities in disadvantaged neighborhoods.
- To understand the processes through which ABAs can impact health equity.
Main Methods
- Qualitative study in England and Spain involving asset-based health promoter initiatives.
- Data collection via theory of change workshops, observations, and interviews with 44 stakeholders.
- Thematic analysis informed by systems thinking.
Main Results
- Identified three change processes: enabling asset-based thinking, developing asset-based capacities, and changing decision-making through ABAs.
- ABAs showed potential for individual empowerment and social capital development, contributing to inequality reduction.
- Contextual factors significantly influenced neighborhood changes and collective empowerment, limiting broader impact on health inequalities.
Conclusions
- Asset-based approaches can foster individual empowerment and social capital, offering a pathway to reduce health inequalities.
- The effectiveness of ABAs in reducing health inequalities is contingent upon contextual factors and enabling collective empowerment.
- Further research is needed to optimize ABA implementation for sustained impact on health equity.
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