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1 online resource (xii, 177 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Critical issues in health and medicine
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Critical issues in health and medicine.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-162) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- ch. 1. Heroes of community health -- ch. 2. Mississippi : where it all began -- ch. 3. Boston : the way democracy ought to work -- ch. 4. South Carolina low country : a homegrown black power structure -- ch 5. New York : health care is a right -- ch. 6. Rio Grande valley of Texas : steps from the third world -- ch. 7. Health center legacy -- Notes -- Interviews -- Index. |
| Summary |
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 provid. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Community health services -- United States -- History.
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Community health services. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Community Health Centers -- history. |
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Health Policy -- history. |
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Health Care Reform -- history. |
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Civil Rights -- history. |
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United States. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lefkowitz, Bonnie. Community health centers. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007 0813539110 9780813539119 (DLC) 2006011530 (OCoLC)66524954 |
| ISBN |
9780813541310 (electronic book) |
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081354131X (electronic book) |
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0813539110 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780813539119 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0813539129 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780813539126 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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