Community organization
Subtitle: action and inaction
By: by Floyd Hunter, Ruth Connor Schaffer, Cecil G. Sheps
Contributors: Schaffer, Ruth Connor, author; Sheps, Cecil G. (Cecil George), 1913-2004, author
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1956
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Public health; Public Health
Description: This book details a study of Salem whose objective was to locate a community in which people were active in relation to health needs and to observe systematically and record the processes by which decisions were reached, plans were formulated, and action programs were initiated and carried out to meet health problems of the community.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-263).
Table of contents: title: First views; title: History, ghosts, and totems; title: Persons who influence decisions; title: Persons of lesser influence; title: Public health services and other facilities; title: Physicians and community relations; title: General patterns of action; title: Choosing the self-study committee - The self-study committee goes to work; title: The self-study committee completes its job; title: Specific action; title: Ideas that: guide?; title: Community organization: unreality and reality.