Community Organizing and Community Building for Health - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813524369 ISBN 13: 9780813524368

Verlag: Rutgers University Press, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

"This is a terrific book! Meredith Minkler has assembled a veritable Who's Who of expert coauthors to produce an elegant and indispensible book, the omega in the field. The book offers trenchant analysis and practical strategies--from assessment to evaluation--that can be used to help empower communities to help themselves. No serious student of community organizing will want to be without it." --John P. Allegrante, president, Society for Public Health Education "An outstanding book which makes a unique contribution to the field of health organizing. The book is a sophisticated and comprehensive treatment of the context, components, commitment, and competencies needed to postively effect community health conditions." --Terry Mizrahi, Hunter College School of Social Work As problems such as HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, violence, and environmental toxins become an ever greater part of our national landscape, grassroots public health work becomes all the more important. At a time of unprecedented challenges and opportunities for public health, this book provides the tools for students and professionals who are working to build healthier communities. Meredith Minkler is a professor of community health education at the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. She is coeditor of Critical Perspectives on Aging and coauthor of Grandmothers as Caregivers. She is cofounder of the Tenderloin Senior Organizing Project in San Francisco and winner of APHA's Distinguished Career Award.

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Reseña del editor

As public health problems such as HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, violence, and environmental toxins become an ever greater part of our national landscape, grassroots public health work has become all the more important. This updated and revised edition of a highly praised volume provides meaningful insights into the systems of inequality in the United States--such as race, class, and gender--that impact health. Updated versions of a number of the original chapters, as well as new chapters and appendixes, address areas such as using community organizing to impact on policy; using the arts in community building and organizing; online activism; and the role of cultural humility and systems change in building effective partnerships between local health departments and community residents.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0813524369
• ISBN 13: 9780813524368
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 420
• Herausgeber: Minkler Meredith
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