EMPOWER: Enabling Methods of Planning and Organizing Within Everyone’s Reach Robert S. Gold, PhD, DrPH, MACRO International, Inc., Lawrence W. Green, DrPH, University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada, Marshall W. Kreuter ISBN-13: 9780763704100 ISBN-10: 0763704105 $59.95 (Sugg. US List) Cd-rom 168 Pages © 1998

EMPOWER is a computerized software program tailored to assist health educators teaching community health courses and practitioners in their efforts to plan and implement community health programs. Using a substantive knowledge base from recognized experts in health promotion planning and mammography screening, and the PRECEED-PROCEDE process of planning, EMPOWER illustrates how the models and interventions for health promotion or community health programs can be integrated systematically. It uses breast cancer prevention and control programming to demonstrate the steps. Students often seek the opportunity to work through one example for applying the PRECEDE-PROCEED Model. This program allows them to do so interactively.