Research Catalog

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, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Formicola, Allan J.
• Hernández-Cordero, Lourdes.

Description

xxi, 296 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"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 community's well-being. 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 country's 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."--Amazon.com book description.

Subject

• Columbia University
• Columbia University
• Health Services Accessibility > organization & administration
• Health Promotion > organization & administration
• Health Policy
• Health Plan Implementation > methods
• Community-Institutional Relations
• Community Health Services > methods
• Community health services > New York
• Hospital and community > New York
• Medical policy > New York
• Health promotion > New York
• Health services accessibility > New York
• New York City
• New York (State)
• New York

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Creating the collaborative foundation / Allan J. Formicola, Moisés Pérez, and James McIntosh -- The collaborative structure and the challenges we faced / Sandra Harris -- Community health workers : a successful strategy for restoring the health of a community / Moisés Pérez, Jacqueline Martínez, and Laura Frye -- Asthma basics for children (ABC) : building an asthma support system from the ground up / Sally E. Findley ... [et al.] -- Start right coalition : building on community initiatives for childhood immunization promotion / Sally E. Findley ... [et al.] -- The legacy smoking-cessation project / Cheryl Ragonesi, Martin Ovalles, and Daniel F. Seidman -- Salud a su alcance (SASA) : health within your reach / Anita Lee --
• Health information tool for empowerment (HITE) : making health care resources a mouse click away / Yisel Alonzo -- Healthgap and the NMCVC's effort to cover the uninsured / Harris K. (Ken) Lampert -- Healthy choices : mobilizing community assets to combat the twin epidemic of obesity and diabetes / Jacqueline Martínez and Yisel Alonzo -- Columbia Community Dentcare Program / Stephen Marshall, David Albert, and Dennis Mitchell -- Mental health policy paper : giving voice to a neglected epidemic / Lourdes Hernández-Cordero -- The Thelma C. Davidson Adair Medical/Dental Center / Allan J. Formicola -- Summing up / Allan J. Formicola and Lourdes Hernández-Cordero -- Scaling up / Lourdes Hernández-Cordero ... [et al.].

ISBN

• 9780231151665 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0231151667 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780231151672 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0231151675 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780231525275 (ebook)
• 0231525273 (ebook)

LCCN

^^2010026496

OCLC

643443410

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library