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Youth-led health promotion in urban communities : a community capacity-enhancement perspective / Melvin Delgado and Huiquan Zhou.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Delgado, Melvin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Youth--United States.
- Youth.
- Youth in development.
- Youth--Health and hygiene.
- Youth--Medical care.
- United States.
- Youth--Medical care--United States.
- Youth--Health and hygiene--United States.
- Marginality, Social--United States.
- Marginality, Social.
- Social work with minorities--United States.
- Social work with minorities.
- Youth in development--United States.
- Social sciences--Research--Methodology.
- Social sciences.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2008]
- Summary:
- Youth-led health promotion represents an emerging field with tremendous implications for addressing the health needs of marginalized urban youth of color in the United States. Methods to address the current and future health needs of this country's urban marginalized communities have been considered in academics and public policy and practice during the past decade. One of the most promising has been the use of health promotion to reach and empower communities of color in both rural and urban America. The youth-led environmental justice movement, as addressed in this book, is a promising approach to health promotion that is both based on grassroots and community participation. Comprehensive, up-to-date, and with extensive statistical documentation and case illustrations, this book provides a thorough examination of this innovative social paradigm and its impact on current and future generations.
- Contents:
- Contextual setting
- Overview
- Health promotion field
- Demographic profile of youth and trends
- Health care needs in urban communities : a special focus on youth of color
- Youth-led health promotion
- Conceptual foundations for youth-led health promotions
- Social and economic justice foundation
- Principles of youth-led health promotion
- Youth-led health promotion framework and strategies
- Research and evaluation of youth-led health promotion
- Reflections from the field
- Case illustration
- Recommendations for practice and research.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-250) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780742561137
- 0742561135
- 9780742561144
- 0742561143
- OCLC:
- 174040202
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