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Community health centers : a movement and the people who made it happen /
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 neighbor...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Critical issues in health and medicine.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 177 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-162) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813541310 081354131X 1281151327 9781281151322 9786611151324 661115132X |