Community Organizing and Community Building for Health - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

"This is a terrific book! Meredith Minkler has assembled a veritable Who's Who of expert coauthors to produce an elegant and indispensible book, the omega in the field. The book offers trenchant analysis and practical strategies--from assessment to evaluation--that can be used to help empower communities to help themselves. No serious student of community organizing will want to be without it." --John P. Allegrante, president, Society for Public Health Education "An outstanding book which makes a unique contribution to the field of health organizing. The book is a sophisticated and comprehensive treatment of the context, components, commitment, and competencies needed to postively effect community health conditions." --Terry Mizrahi, Hunter College School of Social Work As problems such as HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, violence, and environmental toxins become an ever greater part of our national landscape, grassroots public health work becomes all the more important. At a time of unprecedented challenges and opportunities for public health, this book provides the tools for students and professionals who are working to build healthier communities. Meredith Minkler is a professor of community health education at the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. She is coeditor of Critical Perspectives on Aging and coauthor of Grandmothers as Caregivers. She is cofounder of the Tenderloin Senior Organizing Project in San Francisco and winner of APHA's Distinguished Career Award.

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