Title Community health centers : a movement and the people who made it happen / Bonnie Lefkowitz.

Publication Info.	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2007]
	©2007

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Description	1 online resource (xii, 177 pages).
Series	Critical issues in health and medicine
	Critical issues in health and medicine.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-162) and index.
Contents	Preface -- Acknowledgments -- chapter 1. Heroes of community health -- chapter 2. Mississippi : where it all began -- chapter 3. Boston : the way democracy ought to work -- chapter 4. The South Carolina low country : a homegrown black power structure -- ch 5. New York : health care is a right -- chapter 6. The Rio Grande valley of Texas : steps from the third world -- chapter 7. The health center legacy -- Notes -- Interviews -- Index.
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Summary	America has set ambitious goals for improving health, but they are doomed to failure unless we address persistent and in some cases widening disparities by income and race. This book tells the story of one groundbreaking approach that attacks the problem by focusing on the wellness of whole neighborhoods. Since their creation during the 1960s, community health centers have served the needs of the poor in the tenements of New York, the colonias of Texas, the working-class neighborhoods of Boston, and the dirt farms of the South. As products of the civil rights movement, the early centers provid.
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Subject	Community health services -- United States -- History.
	Community Health Centers -- history.
	Health Policy -- history.
	Health Care Reform -- history.
	Civil Rights -- history.
	United States.
	Community health services.
	Civil rights.
	Community Health Centers.
	Health care reform.
	Medical policy.
	HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
	MEDICAL -- Public Health.
	MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
	HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
	MEDICAL -- Diseases.
	MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
	Community health services. (OCoLC)fst00870958
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Lefkowitz, Bonnie. Community health centers. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007 0813539110 9780813539119 (DLC) 2006011530 (OCoLC)66524954
ISBN	9780813541310 (electronic bk.)
	081354131X (electronic bk.)

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