Community Voices: Health Matters

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Community Voices: Healthcare for the Underserved initiative is a group of community-based demonstration projects launched in 1998 to combat barriers to care and dedicated to finding real-life ways to provide greater access to quality health care to the underserved and uninsured people in America. Despite shrinking budgets, rising costs, and bureaucratic red tape, Community Voices programs are influencing the policy debate within their states. Community Voices: Health Matters chronicles the remarkable accomplishments of eight Community Voices "learning laboratories" that took on the challenge of improving and assuring health care for the underserved in their communities. Community Voices offers a compilation of the innovative health care concepts and programs implemented within these eight communities that are making inroads to creating a policy blueprint for the nation. Community Voices offers a realistic design for ensuring well-being for the millions of health care-challenged citizens in our nation.

Henrie M. Treadwell, PhD, is director and senior social scientist for Community Voices and a research professor in the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine. She serves on the board of the Georgia Department of Corrections and on the editorial board of the International Journal of Men's Health where she is section editor for contributions on the social determinants of health. Previously, she was employed for 17 years as a program director at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Marguerite J. Ro, DrPH, is deputy director of the Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF), a national health policy organization dedicated to strengthening policies, programs, and research to improve the health and well-being of Asian Americans. Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. Formerly she was assistant professor in the College of Dental Medicine of the Mailman School of Public Health and the Center for Community Health Partnerships at Columbia University. Leda M. Perez, PhD, is vice president of Health Initiatives at the Collins Center for Public Policy. She directed Community Voices Miami from 1999-2009, first at Camillus House, a not-for-profit organization devoted to providing support and services for homeless and other vulnerable populations, and later at the Collins Center.

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
The Authors	p. xix
Introduction: The Power of Communities: Breaking a Legacy of Inequity and Disparity	p. xxxv
	p. 1
Baltimore Community Voices: Serving the Uninsured and Underserved Through Coalition-Building and Special Attention to Men's Health	p. 3
Denver Health Community Voices: Working to Improve Health Through Experimentation, Linkages, Leveraging and Transformation	p. 23
Ingham Community Voices: Health Coverage and Health Equity Through Public Health Leadership and Community Building	p. 47
Community Voices Miami: Building Spaces and Relationships That Promote Promising Practices and Access to Health Care	p. 71
Community Voices New Mexico: Integrating Practice with Policy for Health and Well-Being	p. 93
FirstHealth Community Voices, North Carolina: From Practice to Policy	p. 123
Northern Manhattan Community Voices Collaborative: Forging Partnerships to Advance Social and Political Change and Drive Improvements in Health Care Access	p. 151
Oakland Community Voices: A Case Study in the Power of Advocacy in Providing "Sanctuary" and Pathways to Health Care	p. 185
	p. 199
Part Two Introduction: Communicating the Change: The Role of the Community Voice in Building the Policy and Intellectual Basis for Community-Based Access to Care	p. 201
Health Disparity and Vulnerable Populations Confronting Racism and Sexism to Improve Men's Health	p. 203
Determining What We Stand for Will Guide What We Do: Community Priorities, Ethical Research Paradigms, and Research with Vulnerable Populations	p. 213
"Oral Health Is the Measure of a Just Society"	p. 223
Poverty, Race, and the Invisible Men	p. 235
Reducing Unhealthy Behaviors: Where Do We Start?	p. 241
Community Health Workers: Social Justice and Policy Advocates for Community Health and Well-Being	p. 243
Standing in the Gap	p. 251
Strengthening the Oral Health Safety Net: Delivery Models That Improve Access to Oral Health Care for Uninsured and Underserved Populations	p. 253
Vulnerable Populations, Prison, and Federal and State Medicaid Policies: Avoiding the Loss of a Right to Care	p. 259
Web-Based Primary Care Referral Program Associated with Reduced Emergency Department Utilization	p. 271
2007 Denver Men's Health Report Card	p. 281
2007 North Carolina Men's Health Report Card	p. 291
Conclusion: When the Community Voices Initiative Began, We Did Not Know What We Did Not Know	p. 301
Afterword: Now That We "Know What We Know," What Is to Be Done?"	p. 321
Index	p. 327
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