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Mobilizing the Community for Better Health: What the Rest of America Can Learn from Northern Manhattan
Allan Formicola (Ed.)
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Description for Mobilizing the Community for Better Health: What the Rest of America Can Learn from Northern Manhattan
Hardback. Editor(s): Formicola, Allan; Hernandez-Cordero, Lourdes. Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 halftones, 0 color illus., 0 line drawings, 28 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JFSG; JKSN1; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
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. 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, ... Read more
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. 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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231151665
SKU
V9780231151665
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About Allan Formicola (Ed.)
Allan J. Formicola is dean emeritus of the Columbia University College of Dental Medicine and founder of the university's Center for Community Health Partnerships, which has now merged with the Center for Family and Community Medicine. Over the past two decades, he and his colleagues have developed far reaching programs to improve general and oral health care for underserved communities. ... Read more
Reviews for Mobilizing the Community for Better Health: What the Rest of America Can Learn from Northern Manhattan
"An excellent read about an enormous and highlycommendable public health effort in a poor, multi-cultural, and beleagueredcommunity."
Toba Schwaber Kerson, DSW, PhD, Bryn Mawr College this is an excellent read about an enormous and highly commendable public health effort in a poor, multi-cultural, and beleaguered community.
Toba Schwaber Kerson Social Work in Health Care
Toba Schwaber Kerson, DSW, PhD, Bryn Mawr College this is an excellent read about an enormous and highly commendable public health effort in a poor, multi-cultural, and beleaguered community.
Toba Schwaber Kerson Social Work in Health Care