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Mobilizing the community for better health : what the rest of America can learn from Northern Manhattan
- Title
- Mobilizing the community for better health : what the rest of America can learn from Northern Manhattan / edited by Allan J. Formicola and Lourdes Hernández-Cordero.
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, ©2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | RA395.A4 N744 2011 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxi, 296 p. : ill.; 23 cm
- Subject
- Columbia University
- Community health services > New York
- Hospital and community > New York
- Medical policy > New York
- Health promotion > New York
- Health services accessibility > New York
- Community Health Services > methods
- Community-Institutional Relations
- Health Plan Implementation > methods
- Health Policy
- Health Promotion > organization & administration
- Health Services Accessibility > organization & administration
- New York City
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Gail Christopher -- Part I. Beginnings -- Introduction: The Northern Manhattan Community Voices Collaborative / Lourdes Hernandez-Cordero -- 1. Creating the Collaborative Foundation / James McIntosh -- 2. The Collaborative Structure and the Challenges We Faced / Sandra Harris -- Part II. Promoting Health and Primary Care -- 3. Community Health Workers: A Successful Strategy for Restoring the Health of a Community / Laura Frye -- 4. Asthma Basics for Children (ABC): Building an Asthma Support System from the Ground Up / Benjamin Ortiz -- 5. Start Right Coalition: Building on Community Initiatives for Childhood Immunization Promotion / Matilde Irigoyen -- 6. The Legacy Smoking-Cessation Project / Daniel F. Seidman -- Part III. Strengthening the Safety Net -- 7. Salud a Su Alcance (SASA): Health Within Your Reach / Anita Lee -- 8. Health Information Tool for Empowerment (HITE): Making Health Care Resources a Mouse Click Away / Yisel Alonzo -- 9. Health Gap and the NMCVC's Effort to Cover the Uninsured / Harris K. (Ken) Lampert -- 10. Healthy Choices: Mobilizing Community Assets to Combat the Twin Epidemic of Obesity and Diabetes / Yisel Alonzo -- Part IV. Providing Dental and Mental Health Care -- 11. Columbia Community DentCare Program / Dennis Mitchell -- 12. Mental Health Policy Paper: Giving Voice to a Neglected Epidemic / Lourdes Hernandez-Cordero -- 13. The Thelma C. Davidson Adair Medical/Dental Center / Allan J. Formicola -- Part V. Summing Up and Scaling Up -- 14. Summing Up / Lourdes Hernandez-Cordero -- 15. Scaling Up / Allan J. Formicola.
- ISBN
- 9780231151665 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0231151667 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780231151672 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0231151675 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780231525275 (ebook)
- 0231525273 (ebook)
- LCCN
- 2010026496
- OCLC
- ocn643443410
- 643443410
- SCSB-14174006
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries