Community health centers : a movement and the people who made it happen /

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Author / Creator:Lefkowitz, Bonnie.
Imprint:New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 177 pages)
Language:English
Series:Critical issues in health and medicine
Critical issues in health and medicine.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11159018
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ISBN:9780813541310
081354131X
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9780813539119
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9780813539126
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-162) and index.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Lefkowitz, Bonnie. Community health centers. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007 0813539110 9780813539119
Standard no.:10.36019/9780813541310