| Edition |
Third edition. |
| Description |
xvii, 489 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part One. Introduction : Introduction to community organizing and community building / Meredith Minkler ; Why organize? Problems and promise in the inner city / Barack Obama -- Part Two. Contextual frameworks and approaches : Improving health through community organization and community building : perspectives from health education and social work / Meredith Minkler and Nina Wallerstein ; Contrasting organizing approaches : the "Alinsky tradition" and Freirian organizing approaches / Marty Martinson and Celina Su ; Community building practice : an expanded conceptual framework / Cheryl L. Walter and Cheryl A. Hyde -- Part Three. Building effective partnerships and anticipating and addressing ethical challenges : Community, community development, and the forming of authentic partnerships : some critical reflections / Ronald Labonte ; Ethical issues in community organizing and capacity building / Meredith Minkler, Cheri Pies, and Cheryl A. Hyde ; Building partnerships between local health departments and communities : case studies in capacity building and cultural humility / Galen Ellis and Sheryl Walton -- Part Four. Community assessment and issue selection : Community health assessment or healthy community assessment : Whose community? Whose health? Whose assessment? / Trevor Hancock and Meredith Minkler ; Mapping community capacity / John L. McKnight and John P. Kretzmann ; Selecting and zcuttingy the issue / Lee Staples -- Part Five. Community organizing and community building within and across diverse groups and cultures : Education, participation, and capacity building in community organizing with women of color / Lorraine M. Gutiérrez and Edith A. Lewis ; African American barbershops and beauty salons : an innovative approach to reducing health disparities through community building and health education / Laura Linnan, Stephen Thomas, Heather D'Angelo, and Yvonne Owens Ferguson ; Popular education, participatory research, and community organizing with immigrant restaurant workers in San Francisco’s Chinatown : a case study / Charlotte Chang, Alicia L. Salvatore, Pam Tau Lee, Shaw San Liu, and Meredith Minkler -- Part Six. Using the arts and the Internet as tools for community organizing and community building : Creating an online strategy to enhance effective community building and organizing / Nickie Bazell Satariano and Amanda Wong ; Using the arts and new media in community organizing and community building : an overview and case study from post-Katrina New Orleans / Marian McDonald, Caricia Catalani, and Meredith Minkler -- Part Seven. Building, maintaining, and evaluating effective coalitions and community organizing efforts : A coalition model for community action / Frances D. Butterfoss and Michelle C. Kegler ; Community organizing for obesity prevention in Humboldt Park, Chicago : the challenges and successes of coalition building across two organizing traditions / Adam B. Beckler, Katherine Kaufer Christoffel, José E. López, and José Luis Rodríguez ; Participatory approaches to evaluating community organizing and coalition building / Chris M. Coombe -- Part Eight. Influencing policy through community organizing and media advocacy : Using community organizing and community building to influence public policy / Angela Glover Blackwell, Mildred Thompson, Nicholas Freudenberg, Jeanne Ayers, Doran Schrantz, and Meredith Minkler ; Organizing for health care reform : national and state-level efforts and perspectives / Jacquie Anderson, Michael Miller, and Andrew McGuire ; Media advocacy : a strategy for helping communities change policy / Lori Dorfman and Priscilla Gonzalez -- Appendices : Principles of community building : a policy perspective / Angela Glover Blackwell and Raymond A. Colmenar ; Action-oriented community diagnosis procedure / Eugenia Eng and Lynn Blanchard ; Challenging ourselves : critical self-reflection on power and privilege / Cheryl A. Hyde ; A ladder of community participation in public health / Mary Anne Morgan and Jennifer Lifshay ; Coalition member assessment / Tom Wolfe ; Community mapping and digital technology : tools for organizers / Josh Kirschenbaum and Jason Corburn ; Using force field and zSWOTy analysis as strategic tools in community organizing / Meredith Minkler and Chris Coombe ; A checklist for action / Mark S. Homan ; Criteria for creating triggers or codes for Freirian organizing / Nina Wallerstein ; Scale for measuring perceptions of control at the individual, organizational, neighborhood, and beyond-the-neighborhood levels / Barbara A. Israel, Amy J. Schulz, Edith A. Parker, and Adam B. Becker ; Policy Bingo / Mary M. Lee, Rebecca Flournoy, Judith Bell, and Victor Rubin. |
| Subject |
Health promotion.
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Community health services -- Citizen participation.
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Community organization.
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Community development.
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Community Health Planning -- United States.
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Community Health Services -- United States.
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Community Networks -- United States.
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Consumer Organizations -- United States.
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Cultural Diversity -- United States.
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Health Education -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Minkler, Meredith.
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| ISBN |
9780813552996 hardback alkaline paper |
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0813552990 hardback alkaline paper |
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9780813553009 paperback alkaline paper |
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0813553008 paperback alkaline paper |
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