Community engagement, organization, and development for public health practice / Frederick G. Murphy, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murphy, Frederick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community health services.

Community health services--Administration.

Public health administration.

Community organization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Springer Pub. Co., c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this practical text, public health students and practitioners will learn the fundamentals of applying community engagement, organization, and development principles to create successful community public health campaigns. Emphasizing nontraditional approaches and partnerships, and the need to readjust traditional strategies, it discusses organization and development methods optimal for public health practice, including public health ethics, faith-based initiatives in community health, community assessment and measurement methods, coalition building, frameworks for developing health policy, a

Contents:

Cover; Halftitle; About the author; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Foreword John E. Maupin Jr., DDS, MBA; Preface Carol J. Rowland Hogue; Acknowledgments; I: ESSENTIALS OF COMMUNITY HEALTH PRACTICE; 1 Fundamental Core Concepts in the Community Engagement, Organization, and Development Process; Creating a Community Ecology; Establishing Relationships With Community Gatekeepers; Building Trust and Credibility; Developing a CCB; Formalizing the CCB Structure; Working With the CCB to Conduct a Health Needs Assessment

Collaborating With CCB for Development and Implementation of Health-Promotion InterventionsCCB Strategies for Sustainability; Summary; 2 Defining Community Boundaries and Conducting Community Assessments: CEOD Methods and Practices; Defining Community Boundaries; Community Characteristics; Methods and Practices for Analyzing Community Assessment Data; Data-Collection Methods for Community Assessment; Designing Data-Collection Methods; Choosing an Evaluation Method; 3 Ethics and Servant Leadership in Public Health Practice; Defining Ethics; History of Ethics

The 12 Key Principles of Ethical Public Health PracticeEthical Practice: Principles, Rationale, and Values; Defining Servanthood and Servant Leadership; Trust and Leadership; Summary; 4 Culture Competency and CEOD Process: Immigrant Populations, Health Care, Public Health, and Community; Defining and Exploring Culture; Learning Cultures; Understanding Culture for CEOD; CEOD and Cultures of the Future; Culture Building and Context; The Demographic Challenge: Birth Dearth or Population Bomb; Immigration Policy and Practice in the United States: A Historical Perspective

The Response of Native Born to Immigrant: Melting Pot or CauldronHealth Status of Immigrant Populations; The Irony of Health Care for Immigrants: The Inequity Surprise; Generational Differences and Generational Change:Assimilation-Yes or No?; Effecting Change and Establishing Dialogue: Organization as Education; West Indian in America: Ideal Minority or Dust in the Wind; II: COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLABORATIONS; 5 Academic-Community Partnerships for CEOD; General Principles of Academic-Community Partnerships; The Community as Patient; Research Partnerships

Community-Based Participatory ResearchSustainability; Educational Partnerships; Service Partnerships; 6 Engaging the Faith-Based Community in the CEOD Process; An Alternative View of Public Health as the Health of Relationships; Concepts of Spirituality, Faith, and Religion; Religion and Ethics; Religion and Culture; Community-Based Participatory Research; Education for Health; Dimensions of Cultural Framing: Authentic Culturecology; Primary Assumptions of the Model; Principles of the Model; Methodology of the Authentic Culturecology Model; Basic Procedural Steps for the Framework

Conclusion About the Framework

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8261-0802-4

OCLC:

809315020