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This Book Argues That The Traditional Government Approach Of Exhorting Individuals To Live Healthier Lifestyles Is Not Enough - Action To Promote Public Health Needs To Take Place Not Just Through Public Agencies, But Also By Engaging Community Assets And Resources In Their Broadest Sense. Cover; Community Health And Wellbeing; Contents; List Of Tables And Figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes On Contributors; 1. Health Inequalities In Their Place; Introduction; Health Inequalities; Social Determinants: Explaining Health Inequalities; Inside The Black Box: Interpreting Health Inequalities; Developing Meaningful Policy Responses; Conclusion; 2. 'policy Experiments': Policy Making, Implementation And Learning; Introduction; Public Policy: Distinctions And Debates; New Labour, Public Policy And Wicked Problems; Policy Design, Complexities And Policy Stress Policy Implementation: Governance And Organisation Of The Policy Systempolicy Learning; Conclusion; 3. Policy Innovation To Tackle Health Inequalities; Introduction; Initiatives To Tackle Health Inequalities; Development Of The Sharp Programme In Wales; The Seven Sharp Projects; Conclusion; 4. Action Research Partnerships:contributing To Evidence And Intelligent Change; Introduction; Characteristics Of Action Research; Action Research In Sharp; Conclusion; 5. Engaging With Communities; Introduction; The Nature Of Communities; Processes Of Engagement; Barriers And Motivations To Engagement Measuring Engagement And Assessing Its Impactconclusion; 6. The Role Of The Community-based Action Researcher; Introduction; Expectations And Challenges; Developing Into The Role Of Cbar; Conclusion; 7. Evaluation, Evidence And Learning In Community-based Action Research; Introduction; Evaluating Community-level Health Interventions: Mission Impossible?; Evidence: What Do We Know And How Do We Know It?; Evaluating Sharp: Knowledge And Learning As Evidence; A Comparative Approach To Evaluating Sharp; Forms Of Evidence: Knowledge