Promoting health and wellness in underserved communities : multidisciplinary perspectives through service learning /

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Starting from the premise that our health status, vulnerability to accidents and disease, and life spans - as individuals and communities - are determined by the organization, delivery, and financing (or lack thereof) of health care, this book explores how educators and community caretakers teach th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Pelham, Anabel O., Sills, Elizabeth, 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Sterling, Va. : Stylus Pub., 2009.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Service learning for civic engagement series.
Subjects:
Health promotion.
Community health services.
Medically underserved areas.
Health Promotion > methods
Community-Based Participatory Research > methods
Health Education > methods
Medically Underserved Area
Health Promotion
Promotion de la santé.
Régions sous-médicalisées.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disease & Health Issues.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Section One: Models of Community Engagement
  • 1. Reaffirming the Role of Service Learning in Public Health Curricula / Veronica Acosta-Deprez and Tony Sinay
  • 2. Connections Across Generations / Madeleine Rose
  • 3. Preparing Future Nurses for A Life of Civic Engagement / Lynette Landry and Harvey Davis
  • 4. Cultivating Healthy Habits / Debora Hammond
  • Section Two: Cross Cultural Competencies
  • 5. Immigrant Health Literacy / Daryl M. Gordon, Maricel G. Santos, and Gail Weinstein
  • 6. Community-based Health Needs Assessments with Culturally Distinct Populations / Joachim O.F. Reimann and Dolores I. Rodriguez-Reimann
  • 7. The Role of Community- Based Paticipatory Research, Civic Engagement and Service Learning in Reducing Health Dispaities / Helda Pinzon-Perez
  • 8. Teaching Public Health Security Through Community-Based and Case Based Learning / Louse Greshman, Sonja Ingmanson, and Susan Cheng
  • Section Three: Community Partnerships
  • 9. From Projects to Partnerships / Charles N. Dararh and Katie Plante Smith
  • 10. The Accidental Service Learner / Jonathan Sills
  • The Economy of Abudance / Kathleen M. Roe, Andrea Nance, Alvin Galang, Anna Bingham, German Blanco, Ryan Duhe, and Kenneth Lee
  • 12. Using Service Learning to Teach Community Nutrition / Marjorie Freedman
  • 13. Affecting Community Wellness with Technology and Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration / Malu Roldan.

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