Advancing Health Rights and Tackling Inequalities: Interrogating Community Development and Participatory Praxis

Anuj Kapilashrami · Neil Quinn · Abhijit Das

Apr 2025 · Policy Press

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About this ebook

In a world facing multiple intersecting crises, the push for healthier, more resilient societies has never been more urgent. This timely book reveals how empowered and organised communities can lead this change. It offers policy makers, academics and activists research-driven insights, decolonial perspectives and real-world examples of organising and collective actions from across the global North and South.

By centring on the power of community development, participation and social movements, the book delivers actionable frameworks to tackle inequality and advance the right to health, making it an essential resource for anyone committed to health justice and for building equitable and sustainable health systems worldwide.

About the author

Anuj Kapilashrami is Professor and Chair in Health Policy and Equity and Director of the Centre for Global Health and Intersectional Equity Research at the University of Essex.

Neil Quinn is Professor of Social Work and Health Equity and Founding Director of the Centre for Health Policy at the University of Strathclyde.

Abhijit Das is Managing Trustee of the Centre for Health and Social Justice in New Delhi and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington.

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