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Community Health Centers: A Movement and the People Who Made It Happen (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine) - Softcover

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Lefkowitz, Bonnie

 
9780813539126: Community Health Centers: A Movement and the People Who Made It Happen (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0813539129 ISBN 13: 9780813539126
Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 2007

Synopsis

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. Bonnie Lefkowitz is a health policy writer and consultant with twent-four years of experience as a federal researcher, administrator, and policy analyst.

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About the Author

Bonnie Lefkowitz is a health policy writer and consultant with twenty-four years of experience as a federal researcher, administrator, and policy analyst. She lives in North Beach, Maryland.

From the Back Cover

The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has placed a national spotlight on the shameful state of healthcare for America's poor. In the face of this highly publicized disaster, public health experts are more concerned than ever about persistent disparities that result from income and race. This book tells the story of one groundbreaking approach to medicine 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 and environmental services, economic development, and empowerment.Bonnie Lefkowitz—herself a veteran of community health administration—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. In a series of personal accounts and interviews with national leaders and dozens of health care workers, patients, and activists in five communities across the United States, she shows how health centers have endured despite cynicism and inertia, the vagaries of politics, and ongoing discrimination.At a time when there is bipartisan support for expansion of the program, this book offers a timely analysis of failures and successes, and offers ideas on how to ensure the survival of the centers' community-based mission in today's competitive marketplace. Bonnie Lefkowitz is a health policy writer and consultant with twenty-four years of experience as a federal researcher, administrator, and policy analyst. She lives in North Beach, Maryland.

From the Inside Flap

The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has placed a national spotlight on the shameful state of healthcare for America's poor. In the face of this highly publicized disaster, public health experts are more concerned than ever about persistent disparities that result from income and race. This book tells the story of one groundbreaking approach to medicine 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 and environmental services, economic development, and empowerment.Bonnie Lefkowitz herself a veteran of community health administration 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. In a series of personal accounts and interviews with national leaders and dozens of health care workers, patients, and activists in five communities across the United States, she shows how health centers have endured despite cynicism and inertia, the vagaries of politics, and ongoing discrimination.At a time when there is bipartisan support for expansion of the program, this book offers a timely analysis of failures and successes, and offers ideas on how to ensure the survival of the centers' community-based mission in today's competitive marketplace. Bonnie Lefkowitz is a health policy writer and consultant with twenty-four years of experience as a federal researcher, administrator, and policy analyst. She lives in North Beach, Maryland.

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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0813539129
ISBN 13 
9780813539126
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
192