Case Study: Empowerment approaches to Food Poverty in North East Scotland: The Shaping Health programme on Learning from international experience on approaches to community power, participation and decision-making in health.

Lucia D'Ambruoso; Pamela Ann Abbott; Flora Douglas; Emma  Macpherson; Emmanuel Okpo

Case Study: Empowerment approaches to Food Poverty in North East Scotland: The Shaping Health programme on Learning from international experience on approaches to community power, participation and decision-making in health.

Lucia D'Ambruoso^* (Corresponding Author), Pamela Ann Abbott, Flora Douglas, Emma Macpherson, Emmanuel Okpo

^*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned Report

Abstract

This case study examines empowerment approaches for people living in food poverty in the City of Aberdeen in the North East (NE) of Scotland. Food poverty in Scotland is a public health problem that disproportionately affects poor people. Its extent is not well measured, but in Scotland 18% of the population are estimated to live in relative income poverty. Three main groups are at risk: people who are ‘working poor’, people who are unemployed and dependent on state welfare, and people who are homeless. These groups overlap and people move between them. Neither local authorities nor health authorities directly provide or fund services
related to food poverty. They collaborate with the voluntary sector to do so. Health authorities provide evidence on reducing health inequalities, and local authorities support services delivered by the voluntary sector.

Original language	English
Publisher	University of Aberdeen
Number of pages	52
Publication status	Published - 2017

Bibliographical note

Produced within the Shaping Health programme led by the Training and Research Support Centre (TARSC).
With support from a grant awarded by Charities Aid Foundation of America
from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Donor-Advised Fund

Acknowledgements: The authors acknowledge the internal reviewer, Professor Claire Wallace, the external reviewer Dr Don Matheson for reviewing earlier versions of this report, Dr Rene Loewenson (TARSC) for review and edit and V Tyson for copy edit. We would like to thank our informants, focus group participants and others in the site for sharing information and insights so generously, and acknowledge the wider project community on the Shaping Health Web Platform, with whom the work was informed through online exchanges. Finally, we thank Dr Roger Sapsford for proofreading a final draft of the report

Keywords

Socioeconomic Transformation & Democratisation

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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D'Ambruoso, L., Abbott, P. A., Douglas, F., Macpherson, E., & Okpo, E. (2017). Case Study: Empowerment approaches to Food Poverty in North East Scotland: The Shaping Health programme on Learning from international experience on approaches to community power, participation and decision-making in health. University of Aberdeen. https://www.abdn.ac.uk/iahs/documents/SOCEMP%20Scotland%20case%20study%20July2017pv.pdf

Case Study: Empowerment approaches to Food Poverty in North East Scotland: The Shaping Health programme on Learning from international experience on approaches to community power, participation and decision-making in health. / D'Ambruoso, Lucia (Corresponding Author); Abbott, Pamela Ann; Douglas, Flora et al.
University of Aberdeen, 2017. 52 p.

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D'Ambruoso, L , Abbott, PA, Douglas, F, Macpherson, E & Okpo, E 2017, Case Study: Empowerment approaches to Food Poverty in North East Scotland: The Shaping Health programme on Learning from international experience on approaches to community power, participation and decision-making in health. University of Aberdeen. <https://www.abdn.ac.uk/iahs/documents/SOCEMP%20Scotland%20case%20study%20July2017pv.pdf>

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