Building community capacity : minority and immigrant populations / Rosemary M. Caron and Joav Merrick, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Caron, Rosemary M.

Merrick, Joav, 1950-

Series:

Health and human development series.

Health and human development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health promotion.

Medical policy.

Health education.

Preventive health services.

Community development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For all of our advances in health care and achievements in public health that have contributed to an increased life expectancy, there still remain persistent problems in one's community that are public health in origin. These persistent public health problems are well-studied from an academic standpoint, yet they evade a solution that is practical, economical, and socially just. These are complex, community-based, public health problems that disproportionally impact minority and immigrant populations. This book explores this topic in greater detail. Specifically, what have we, as public health academicians and practitioners learned when partnering with minority and immigrant community members to help them address persistent public health issues that affect them and their families on a daily basis? These are lessons that need to be shared so disadvantaged populations can build their capacity to address and solve persistent public health problems in their communities.

Contents:

Intro

BUILDING COMMUNITY CAPACITY

Contents

Foreword

Lessons learned in building community capacity: Minority and immigrant populations

Public Health Aspects of Minority and Immigrant Populations

Policy and community partnerships as public health management tools for childhood lead poisoning

Abstract

Introduction

Source of exposure - housing

Primary prevention

New England: health policy to prevent childhood lead poisoning

National primary prevention policy

Primary prevention policies in New England states

Community-based lead poisoning initiatives in New England

New England initiatives

New England state initiatives

University and community: Partnerships with the potential to prevent childhood lead poisoning

Barriers to academic-community partnerships

Academic-community partnerships and childhood lead poisoning

Conclusion

References

Developmental delay in children with blood lead levels between 5 and 9 µg/dl

Our study

What we found

Discussion

Environmental public health education partnerships: Successes and challenges

Our program

Our findings

1. Partnership building and program development

2. Recruitment for Train-the-Trainer sessions

3. Knowledge assessment and workshop satisfaction evaluation

DHSP

4Cs

4. Follow-up usage and dissemination survey

National availability on the NIEHS resource website

Workshop results

Subsequent additional positive outcomes

Acknowledgments

Tribal capacity building as a complex adaptive system: New insights, new lessons learned

Our network

Lessons learned

Project components need to be adaptable.

Simple rules promote understanding

Native reality is not linear

Let originality and creativity emerge

Predictability hinders progress

A simple underlying framework is sufficient to ensure forward progress

Context is everything

Co-evolve

Against the current: Strategies for addressing public health concerns in a Native American community through partnership

The Omaha Tribe

Analysis of the partnership

Lessons learned: Historical analysis using the ten essential services of public health

Issues to consider when adapting evidence-based physical activity interventions with and within racial/ethnic minority communities

Purpose

Community guide

EBPH course

Brainstorm sessions

Sorting and rating

Data entry

Map creation

Pattern matching

Results

Final concept map

Similarities

Differences

Moving from generation of issues to practice considerations

Limitations

Building capacity to improve physical activity

Promoting youth physical activity and health career awareness in an African-American faith community

Partners and program components

Our project

Participants and setting

Instruments

Training and activities

What did we find?

The relationship between diabetes, obesity and iris markings in African-Americans in Montgomery County, Alabama

Diabetes, genetics and iris analysis

Measures

Research design

Statistical analysis

BMI categories, iris markings and risk for diabetes.

Relationships between BMI Categories and genetic markers. Comparative analyses based on the second group structure (B)

Policy significance

Lessons learned from adaptation and evaluation of home visitation services for Latino communities

Adaptation and evaluation method

Lessons learned from the protección en construcción (PenC) community research partnership

Background

Design

Sample

Procedures

Analysis

CBPR outcomes

Participation

Capacity building

Empowerment

Group dynamics

Engaging community

Building capacity

The challenges of "community"

Roles of Hispanic service organizations in tuberculosis education and health promotion

Health promotion and communication with Hispanic service organizations

Data analysis

Project salud: Using community-based participatory research to culturally adapt an HIV prevention intervention in the Latino migrant worker community

Conducting project salud

Strategies for facilitating the recruitment of Latinas in cancer prevention research

Overview of studies

Recruitment method

Strategies to facilitate the recruitment of Latinas into research studies

Preparing for participant recruitment

Active participant recruitment

Communicating and establishing trust

Adapting to extraneous factors.

Provision of resources and incentives

Success of "Promotores de Salud" in identifying immigrant Latino smokers and developing quit plans

Participants

Training curriculum

Outreach activities

Promotores' characteristics

Training and outreach activities

Smoker identification and referral

Further trainings

About the editors

About the Department of Health Management and Policy, College of Health and Human Services, University of New Hampshire, USA

About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel

Mission

Service and academic activities

Research activities

National collaborations

International collaborations

Targets

About the book series "Health and human development"

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62081-032-8

OCLC:

832455794