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Urban health : combating disparities with local data / Steven Whitman, Ami M. Shah, Maureen Benjamins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitman, Steven.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban health--Illinois--Chicago.
- Urban health.
- Health surveys--Illinois--Chicago.
- Health surveys.
- Healthcare Disparities.
- Urban Health Services.
- Community Health Services.
- Health Surveys.
- Models, Organizational.
- Chicago.
- Medical Subjects:
- Healthcare Disparities.
- Urban Health Services.
- Community Health Services.
- Health Surveys.
- Models, Organizational.
- Chicago.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 380 pages)
- Other Title:
- Combating disparities with local data
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book describes how a landmark health survey in Chicago generated dramatic data that are allowing investigators throughout the city to move from data to action and from observation to intervention.
- Contents:
- Introducing the Sinai model for reducing health disparities and improving health / Steven Whitman, Ami M. Shah, and Maureen R. Benjamins
- A history of the movement to address health disparities / Jade L. Dell and Steven Whitman
- The importance of local data : introduction to section 2 / Ami M. Shah, Steven Witman, Maureen R. Benjamins
- Sinai's improving community health survey : methodology and key findings / Ami M. Shah and Steven Whitman
- The Jewish community health survey of Chicago : methodology and key findings / Maureen R. Benjamins
- The Chicago Asian community surveys : methodology and key findings / Matthew J. McGee [and others]
- Comparing the health status of ten Chicago communities / Ami M. Shah.
- Translating data into action : introduction to section 3 / Steven Whitman, Ami M. Shah, and Maureen R. Benjamins
- Working together to live tobacco free : community-based smoking cessation in North Lawndale / Joseph F. West and Charlene J. Gamboa
- Combating childhood obesity through a neighborhood coalition : community organizing for obesity prevention in Humboldt Park / Adam B. Becker [and others].
- Fighting childhood obesity in a Jewish community / Maureen R. Benjamins
- Disproportionate impact of diabetes in a Puerto Rican community of Chicago / Steven Whitman [and others]
- Pediatric asthma in African American and Latino Chicago communities : local level data drives response / Helen Margellos-Anast, Melissa A. Gutierrez
- Humboldt Park : a community united to challenge asthma / Molly Martin and Juana Ballesteros
- Community-based health interventions : past, present, and future / Leah Ansell
- The future holds promise / Steven Whitman, Ami M. Shah, and Maureen R. Benjamins.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-045345-1
- 9786612792656
- 0-19-975015-7
- 1-282-79265-2
- OCLC:
- 922970209
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