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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lefkowitz, Bonnie.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Critical issues in health and medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community health services--United States--History.

Community health services.

Community Health Centers--history.

History.

United States.

Civil Rights--history.

Health Care Reform--history.

Health Policy--history.

Medical Subjects:

Community Health Centers--history.

United States.

Civil Rights--history.

Health Care Reform--history.

Health Policy--history.

Physical Description:

xii, 177 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

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

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 provided not only primary and preventive care, but also social services, economic development, and empowerment. Bonnie Lefkowitz explores the program's unlikely transformation from a small and beleaguered demonstration effort to a network of close to a thousand modern health care organizations serving nearly 15 million people.

Contents:

Heroes of community health

Mississippi: where it all began

Boston: the way democracy ought to work

The South Carolina low country: a homegrown black power structure

New York: health care is a right

The Rio Grande valley of Texas: steps from the third world

The health center legacy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-162) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0813539110

9780813539119

0813539129

9780813539126

OCLC:

66524954