Community Organizing and Community Building for HealthMeredith Minkler Rutgers University Press, 2005 - 489 pages "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 influence 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."--Amazon.com overview. |
Contents
Introduction to Community Organizing | 1 |
Contextual Frameworks and Models | 23 |
Proliferation | 51 |
The Professionals Role in Community | 79 |
Functions Challenges | 97 |
Ethical Issues and Practical Dilemmas in Community | 116 |
Community Assessment and Issue Selection | 135 |
Mapping Community Capacity | 158 |
Building and Maintaining Effective Coalitions | 289 |
Coalition Building to Prevent Childhood | 314 |
The Arts and the Internet as Tools | 329 |
Using the Arts in Community Organizing | 346 |
Measuring Community Empowerment | 365 |
Community Building through Empowering | 386 |
Influencing Policy through Community | 403 |
A Strategy for Empowering | 419 |
Selecting and Cutting the Issue | 173 |
AlinskyBased | 193 |
Freirian Praxis in Health Education | 218 |
Community Organizing and Community | 237 |
Local Government and Resident Collaboration | 254 |
Community Organizing with the Elderly Poor | 272 |
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