Social exclusion and embracement: A helpful concept?. Burls, A. & Caan, W. Primary Health Care Research and Development, 5(3):191–192, 2004.
Social exclusion and embracement: A helpful concept? [pdf]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
Certain observations arose from the implementation of multicentre research on ‘ecotherapy’. Very diverse community groups of people with a range of disabilities, undertaking horticulture and nature conservation as a therapeutic and social enterprise, provided an unexpected conception. We coined the term embracement to capture the meaning of an activity we found in many ‘bottom-up’ examples of social inclusion. Self-organizing groups grow by the members’ choosing to embrace a common identity, which included and integrated health, social and environmental dimensions. Embracement is self-directing, spontaneous and collective, with the potential group members being the driving force. © 2000, Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved.

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