Communities In Action

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309452960

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Communities in Action by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States Pdf

In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.

Author : Wendy Hulko,Shari Brotman,Louise Stern,Ilyan Ferrer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351801539

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Gerontological Social Work in Action by Wendy Hulko,Shari Brotman,Louise Stern,Ilyan Ferrer Pdf

Gerontological Social Work in Action introduces "anti-oppression gerontology" (AOG), a critical approach to social work with older adults, their families, and communities. AOG principles are applied to direct and indirect practice and a range of topics of relevance to social work practice in the context of a rapidly aging and increasingly diverse world. Weaving together stories from diverse older adults, theories, research, and practical tools, this unique textbook prompts social workers to think differently and push back against oppressive forces. It pays attention to issues, realities, and contexts that are largely absent in social work education and gerontological practice, including important developments in our understanding of age/ism; theories of aging and social work; sites and sectors of health and social care; managing risk and frailty; moral, ethical and legal questions about aging including medical assistance in dying; caregiving; dementia and citizenship; trauma; and much more. This textbook should be considered essential reading for social work students new to or seeking to specialize in aging, as well as those interested in the application of anti-oppressive principles to working with older adults and researching later life.

Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781552502303

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Communities, Livelihoods and Natural Resources by International Development Research Centre (Canada) Pdf

This book synthesizes results from a 7-year programme of applied research on community-based approaches to natural resource management in Asia. By presenting field reports of innovative approaches to poverty reduction and sustainable resource use, it provides practitioners with models of ""good practice"" in participatory, community-based resource management, and it demonstrates how site-based research contributes to broader learning in the field of natural resource management and policy. There are 11 case studies featured, from some of the most marginal areas of rural China, Mongolia, Laos, V.

Author : Chris Werry,Miranda Mowbray
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015050498685

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Online Communities by Chris Werry,Miranda Mowbray Pdf

Comprises a variety of viewpoints regarding e-commerce, higher education through distance learning, democratization of universities, development of the Internet into a free universal encyclopaedia, community organization, etc.

Author : Liping Cai,William C. Gartner,Ana Maria Munar
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849507219

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Tourism Branding by Liping Cai,William C. Gartner,Ana Maria Munar Pdf

Academic studies have predominantly treated destination branding as a marketing phenomenon that happens to involve tourists as customers in a marketplace. This title attempts to free branding research and practice in tourism from the shackles of marketing that are dominated by the conventional approach of product, price, place, and promotion.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
ISBN : MINN:31951D03735288Z

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Communities in Action by Anonim Pdf

Author : Graeme Johanson,Larry Stillman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781443810487

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Communities in Action by Graeme Johanson,Larry Stillman Pdf

ICTs have become a very powerful community resource, viewed by many authors in this volume as two-way mechanisms, facilitating the perpetuation of and reflecting esteemed community values. The contents of this volume make it clear that ICTs have a huge capacity for incorporation into different forms of community action, including social change, community learning, community connection, and community development. Through studying the papers in this volume, readers can learn about multiple forms of ICTs and action and how action is understood, and improve their grasp of the complexities of social-technical relations. The chapters in this volume began life as papers at the Conference on ’Community Informatics – prospects for communities and action’ in 2007, the fourth successful community informatics conference held at the Monash University Centre, Prato Italy. This book creates a platform for exchanging experiences, case studies, and possible solutions to address the difficulties in deploying ICT in many contexts, and will be of interest to all researchers and practioners who engage with ICT, particularly those in the community and developmental informatics field.

Author : John Broomfield,Matthew Biggley,Sandra Kritzer,Michelle Forde,Jaden Lairson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Civics
ISBN : OCLC:1057322918

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Civics in Action by John Broomfield,Matthew Biggley,Sandra Kritzer,Michelle Forde,Jaden Lairson Pdf

Author : Kristina Smock
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0231126727

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Democracy in Action by Kristina Smock Pdf

In cities across the US, grass-roots organizations are working to revitalize popular participation in disenfranchised communities by bringing ordinary people into public life. This book examines the techniques used to achieve these goals.

Author : Paul Born
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781626560994

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Deepening Community by Paul Born Pdf

Community shapes our identity, quenches our thirst for belonging, and bolsters our physical, mental, emotional, and economic health. But in the chaos of modern life, community ties have become unraveled, leaving many feeling afraid or alone in the crowd, grasping at shallow substitutes for true community. In this thoughtful and moving book, Paul Born describes the four pillars of deep community: sharing our stories, taking the time to enjoy one another, taking care of one another, and working together for a better world. To show the role each of these plays, he shares his own stories—as a child of refugees and as a longtime community activist. It’s up to us to create community. Born shows that the opportunity is right in front of us if we have the courage and conviction to pursue it.

Author : Dana Bourland
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781642831283

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Gray to Green Communities by Dana Bourland Pdf

US cities are faced with the joint challenge of our climate crisis and the lack of housing that is affordable and healthy. Our housing stock contributes significantly to the changing climate, with residential buildings accounting for 20 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. US housing is not only unhealthy for the planet, it is putting the physical and financial health of residents at risk. Our housing system means that a renter working 40 hours a week and earning minimum wage cannot afford a two-bedroom apartment in any US county. In Gray to Green Communities, green affordable housing expert Dana Bourland argues that we need to move away from a gray housing model to a green model, which considers the health and well-being of residents, their communities, and the planet. She demonstrates that we do not have to choose between protecting our planet and providing housing affordable to all. Bourland draws from her experience leading the Green Communities Program at Enterprise Community Partners, a national community development intermediary. Her work resulted in the first standard for green affordable housing which was designed to deliver measurable health, economic, and environmental benefits. The book opens with the potential of green affordable housing, followed by the problems that it is helping to solve, challenges in the approach that need to be overcome, and recommendations for the future of green affordable housing. Gray to Green Communities brings together the stories of those who benefit from living in green affordable housing and examples of Green Communities’ developments from across the country. Bourland posits that over the next decade we can deliver on the human right to housing while reaching a level of carbon emissions reductions agreed upon by scientists and demanded by youth. Gray to Green Communities will empower and inspire anyone interested in the future of housing and our planet.

Author : Patricia Kelleher,Mary Whelan
Publisher : Combat Poverty Agency
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Community development
ISBN : 9781871643220

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Dublin Communities in Action by Patricia Kelleher,Mary Whelan Pdf

Author : Nan Henderson,Bonnie Benard,Nancy Sharp-Light
Publisher : Resiliency In Action
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Adaptability (Psychology)
ISBN : 0966939433

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Resiliency in Action by Nan Henderson,Bonnie Benard,Nancy Sharp-Light Pdf

How to build bounce-back kids, families, schools, and communities is the theme of Resiliency In Action: Practical Ideas for Overcoming Risks and Building Strengths in Youth, Families, and Communities. It is edited by internationally recognized resiliency expert, trainer, and consultant Nan Henderson, M.S.W., whose publications are used in more than 25 countries. The book is a research-based, practical guide for educators, counselors, parents, community organizers, and mentors and is filled with the latest strategies for helping children, families, schools, and communities bounce back from risk, stress, trauma, and adversity.More than two dozen experts in the fields of child, family, organizational, and community resiliency contributed to the book, which challenges a widely accepted myth about people especially young people, who experience risks, stress, trauma, and adversity in their lives, according to Henderson. Contrary to popular opinion, the majority of these individuals, over time, do bounce back and do well. There is a growing body of scientific research from several fields that documents this fact and yields important information as to what can be done every day to facilitate this process of overcoming.This book is really three books in one: it contains the most recent research, hands-on and practical strategies, and stories of resilient individuals and best practices. The book includes 60 chapters grouped in seven sections: The Foundations of Resiliency, Resiliency and Schools, Resiliency and Communities, Resiliency Connections (Mentoring, Support, and Counseling), Resiliency and Youth Development, Resiliency and Families, and Resiliency and the Brain.

Author : Josie Keogh
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781680487299

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What Are Different Types of Communities? by Josie Keogh Pdf

What would life be like if you lived somewhere else? Would it be strange to take the subway to school or to live five miles from your nearest neighbor? This volume explores the similarities and differences between several types of communities, focusing in particular on urban, suburban, and rural areas. Think About It and Compare and Contrast sidebars encourage young readers to engage with the material, while vocabulary call-outs and the glossary help expand language skills. Sure to inspire a lively discussion, this title works well with lower elementary social studies curricula.

Author : R. Labonté,G. Laverack
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230228375

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Health Promotion in Action by R. Labonté,G. Laverack Pdf

Globalization is reshaping the field of health promotion practice. In this innovative study, the authors outline health promotion's traditional concerns and argue that 'a policy of glocalization' (thinking globally, acting locally) can succeed in establishing health equality and achieving empowerment individually, locally, nationally and globally. Drawing on international examples across Africa, Asia, Europe and North America, this study analyses economic policies and their link to health, particularly in relation to the developing world. Globalization affects health in varied ways and this book examines the competing ways in which 'global health' has been framed in public policy, concluding by revealing how health promoters can respond to globalization's new challenges.