Description: Mobilizing the Community for Better Health : What the Rest of America Can Learn from Northern Manhattan, Hardcover by Formicola, Allan J. (EDT); Hernandez-Cordero, Lourdes (EDT), ISBN 0231151667, ISBN-13 9780231151665, Brand New, Free shipping in the US From 1999 to 2009, The Northern Manhattan Community Voices Collaborative put Columbia University and its Medical Center in touch with surrounding community organizations and churches to facilitate access to primary care, nutritional improvement, and smoking cessation, and to broker innovative ways to access healthcare and other social services. This unlikely partnership and the relationships it forged reaffirms the wisdom of joining "town and gown" to improve a communitys well-being.
Staff members of participating organizations have coauthored this volume, which shares the successes, failures, and obstacles of implementing a vast community health program. A representative of Alianza Dominicana, for example, one of the countrys largest groups settling new immigrants, speaks to the value of community-based organizations in ridding a neighborhood of crime, facilitating access to health insurance, and navigating the healthcare system. The editors outline the beginnings and infrastructure of the collaboration and the relationship between leaders that fueled positive outcomes. Their portrait demonstrates how grassroots solutions can create productive dialogues that help resolve difficult issues.
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Book Title: Mobilizing the Community for Better Health : What the Rest of Ame
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Name: Mobilizing the Community for Better Health : What the Rest of America Can Learn from Northern Manhattan
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Subject: Social Work, Public Health, Health Care Delivery, Human Services, Higher, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year: 2010
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19 Oz
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: Lourdes Hernandez-Cordero
Subject Area: Social Science, Education, Medical
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
