Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Introduction
  • Introduction and overview / Meredith Minkler
  • Two tools for well-being : health systems and communications / John L. McKnight
  • Part II. Contextual frameworks and models
  • Improving health through community organization and community building : a health education perspective / Meredith Minkler and Nina Wallerstein
  • Social action community organization : proliferation, persistence, roots, and prospects / Robert Fisher
  • Community building practice : a conceptual framework / Cheryl L. Walter
  • Part III. The professional's role in organization and empowerment for health : values, assumptions, and ethical dilemmas
  • Community, community development, and the forming of authentic partnerships : some critical reflections / Ronald LaBonte
  • Social change professionals and grassroots organizing : functions and dilemmas / Marc Pilisuk, JoAnn McAllister, Jack Rothman
  • Ethical issues in community organization and community participation / Meredith Minkler and Cheri Pies
  • Part IV. Community assessment
  • Community health assessment or healthy community assessment : whose community? Whose health? Whose Assessment? / Trevor Hancock and Meredith Minkler
  • Mapping community capacity / John L. McKnight and John P. Kretzmann
  • Part V. Issue selection and the creating of critical consciousness
  • Selecting and "cutting" the issue / Lee Staples
  • Freirian Praxis in health education and community organizing : a case study of an adolescent prevention program / Nina Wallerstein, Victoria Sanchez-Merki, Lily Dow
  • Part VI. Community organizing and community building within and across diverse groups
  • Education, participation, and capacity building in community organizing with women of color / Lorraine M. Gutierrez and Edith A. Lewis
  • Community organizing and community building among Gay and bisexual men: the STOP AIDS project / Dan Wohlfeiler
  • Community organizing among the elderly poor in San Francisco's tenderloin district / Meredith Minkler
  • Part VII. Building and maintaining effective coalitions
  • Understanding coalitions and how they operate : an "open systems" organizational framework / Abraham Wandersman, Robert M. Goodman, Frances D. Butterfoss
  • Coalition building to prevent childhood lead poisoning : a case study from New York City / Daniel Kass and Nicholas Freudenberg
  • Part VIII. Measuring community empowerment
  • Using empowerment evaluation in community organizing and community-based health initiatives / Chris M. Coombe
  • Community building through empowering evaluation : a case study of HIV prevention community planning / Kathleen M. Roe [and others]
  • Part IX. New tools for community organizing and community building into the twenty-first century
  • Online computer networks : potential and challenges for community organizing and community building now and in the future / Courtney Uhler Cart
  • Media advocacy : a strategy for empowering people and communities / Lawrence Wallack.