Research Catalog

Title

Community organizing and community building for health / edited by Meredith Minkler.

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Minkler, Meredith.

Description

xi, 489 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Health promotion
• Community health services > Citizen participation
• Community organization
• Community development
• Health Promotion
• Community Health Services
• Community Health Planning
• Health Education
• Community Networks
• Consumer Organizations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Introduction to community organizing and community building / Meredith Minkler -- Ch. 2. Improving health through community organization and community building : a health education perspective / Meredith Minkler and Nina Wallerstein -- Ch. 3. Social action community organizing : proliferation, persistence, roots, and prospects / Robert Fisher -- Ch. 4. Community building practice : a conceptual framework / Cheryl L. Walter -- Ch. 5. Community, community development, and the forming of authentic partnerships : some critical reflections / Ronald Labonte -- Ch. 6. New contexts of organizing : functions, challenges, and solutions / Marc Pilisuk, Joann McAllister, Jack Rothman and Lauren Larin -- Ch. 7. Ethical issues and practical dilemmas in community organization and community participation / Meredith Minkler and Cheri Pies -- Ch. 8. Community health assessment or healthy community assessment : whose community? : whose health? : whose assessment? / Trevor Hancock and Meredith Minkler -- Ch. 9. Mapping community capacity / John L. McKnight and John P. Kretzmann -- Ch. 10. Selecting and cutting the issue / Lee Staples -- Ch. 11. Toward a gender analysis of community organizing models : liminality and the intersection of spheres / Susan Stall and Randy Stoecker -- Ch. 12. Freirian praxis in health education and community organizing : a case study of an adolescent prevention program / Nina Wallerstein, Victoria Sanchez and Lily Velarde -- Ch. 13. Education, participation, and capacity building in community organizing with women of color / Lorraine M. Gutierrez and Edith A. Lewis -- Ch. 14. Local government and resident collaboration to improve health : a case study in capacity building and cultural humility / Galen El-Askari and Sheryl Walton -- Ch. 15. Community organizing with the elderly poor in San Francisco's tenderloin district / Meredith Minkler -- Ch. 16. Understanding coalitions and how they operate as organizations / Abraham Wandersman, Robert M. Goodman and Frances D. Butterfoss -- Ch. 17. Coalition building to prevent childhood lead poisoning : a case study from New York City / Susan Klitzman, Daniel Kass and Nicholas Freudenberg -- Ch. 18. Harnessing the power of the Internet for advocacy and organizing / Sonja Herbert -- Ch. 19. Using the arts in community organizing and community building / Marian McDonald, Jennifer Sarche and Caroline C. Wang -- Ch. 20. Participatory evaluation : building community while assessing change / Chris M. Coombe -- Ch. 21. Community building through empowering evaluation : a case study of community planning for HIV prevention / Kathleen M. Roe, Kevin Roe, Christina Goette Carpenter and Cindy Berenstein Sibley -- Ch. 22. Using community organizing and community building to influence policy / Angela Glover Blackwell, Meredith Minkler and Mildred Thompson -- Ch. 23. Media advocacy : a strategy for empowering people and communities / Lawrence Wallack -- App. 1. Action-oriented community diagnosis procedure / Eugenia Eng and Lynn Blanchard -- App. 2. Principles of community building : a policy perspective / Angela Glover Blackwell and Raymond A. Colmenar -- App. 3. Coalition checklist / Cherie R. Brown -- App. 4. Using force field analysis and SWOT analysis as strategic tools in community organizing / Meredith Minkler and Chris M. Coombe -- App. 5. Inclusivity checklist / Beth Rosenthal -- App. 6. Community mapping and geographic information systems : tools for organizers / Josh Kirschenbaum and Lisa Russ -- App. 7. Criteria for creating triggers or codes / Nina Wallerstein -- App. 8. A checklist for action / Mark S. Homan -- App. 9. Scale for measuring perceptions of control at the individual, organizational, neighborhood, and beyond-the-neighborhood levels / Barbara Israel, Amy A. Schulz, Edith Parker and Adam Becker -- App. 10. Ten principles for effective advocacy campaigns / Herbert Chao Gunther -- App. 11. Ten commandments of community-based research / Leland Brown.

ISBN

• 0813534739 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0813534747 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004000307

OCLC

• ocm54029511
• SCSB-8854544

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries