Event Title
Enhancing the Role of Critical Theory and Indigenous Knowledge in Health Promotion Theory and Practice
Description
Health promotion is a “process of enabling people to increase control over, and improve their health”. This implies that people must be empowered to control the circumstances and contexts that affect their health. This empowerment agenda requires a deep interrogation of the society we live in. People need to confront issues of ideology, power, hegemony, and social justice. They need to reclaim their self-identity and knowledge systems as resources for health. In this lecture, I argue and illustrate that studying and applying critical theory and indigenous knowledge systems are a powerful tool to enhance the empowerment agenda of health promotion.
About the Lecturer: Oliver Mweemba is a Lecturer/Researcher in the Department of Health Promotion and Education, at the University of Zambia. He has a PhD in Social Science and Health from Leeds Beckett University, UK and a Masters of Philosophy in Health Promotion from the University of Bergen, Norway. He is a co-PI in the IDRC funded study on Young Marriage and Parenthood in Zambia (YMAPS). He is also a co-Investigator in a US National Institutes of Health funded project examining a dyad approach to combination HIV prevention in pregnancy for Zambia and Malawi.
Document Type
Event
Start Date
23-10-2019 11:30 AM
End Date
23-10-2019 12:50 PM
Location
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Resource Type
Moving image
Duration
1:20:49
Title of Series
World Issues Forum
Genre/Form
lectures
Contributing Repository
Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Program
World Issues Forum
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Health education--Cross-cultural studies; Ethnoscience--Cross-cultural studies; Ethnophilosophy; Critical theory
Type
Moving Image
Keywords
Health promotion, Empowerment
Rights
This resource is displayed for educational purposes only and may be subject to U.S. and international copyright laws.
Language
English
Format
video/mp4
Enhancing the Role of Critical Theory and Indigenous Knowledge in Health Promotion Theory and Practice
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Health promotion is a “process of enabling people to increase control over, and improve their health”. This implies that people must be empowered to control the circumstances and contexts that affect their health. This empowerment agenda requires a deep interrogation of the society we live in. People need to confront issues of ideology, power, hegemony, and social justice. They need to reclaim their self-identity and knowledge systems as resources for health. In this lecture, I argue and illustrate that studying and applying critical theory and indigenous knowledge systems are a powerful tool to enhance the empowerment agenda of health promotion.
About the Lecturer: Oliver Mweemba is a Lecturer/Researcher in the Department of Health Promotion and Education, at the University of Zambia. He has a PhD in Social Science and Health from Leeds Beckett University, UK and a Masters of Philosophy in Health Promotion from the University of Bergen, Norway. He is a co-PI in the IDRC funded study on Young Marriage and Parenthood in Zambia (YMAPS). He is also a co-Investigator in a US National Institutes of Health funded project examining a dyad approach to combination HIV prevention in pregnancy for Zambia and Malawi.
