Community-Based Health Organizations: Advocating for Improved Health (Jossey-Bass Public Health #12)

Community-Based Health Organizations: Advocating for Improved Health (Jossey-Bass Public Health #12)

Marcia Bayne Smith, Yvonne Graham, Sally Guttmacher
$94.74
Publication Date: January 21st, 2005
Publisher:
Jossey-Bass
ISBN:
9780787964863
Pages:
362
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Description

Community-Based Health Organizations presents the basic principles and practical design and management elements that are needed to create an effective community-based health organization. Once in place, these institutions provide a viable health delivery alternative to traditional, mainstream health care organizations. This important resource includes a historical and theoretical overview of the development of community-based health care organizations and offers guidance for developing the structure and capacity of CBHOs to effectively meet the health needs within their communities. Filled with illustrative examples and case studies, Community-Based Health Organizations is designed to be a practical resource. The authors show how to develop leadership and strategic plans, strengthen management, leverage and maximize resources, evaluate programs, and position a CBHO in a changing and competitive health care environment.

About the Author

Marcia Bayne Smith, D.S.W., is associate professor in Urban Studies at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY). She has also taught at Fordham University, New York, and is a national consultant on health policy and program development. Yvonne J. Graham, R.N., M.P.H., Brooklyn's Deputy Borough President, is founder and past president of the Caribbean Women's Health Association, Inc., Brooklyn, New York. She has served on the Public Health Association of New York City's Board of Directors. Sally Guttmacher, Ph.D., is Director of the MPH program in Community Public Health at New York University and Past President of the Public Health Association of New York City. She is on the Board of the Caribbean Women's Health Association and is the President Elect of the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine.

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