Urban health
Subtitle: combating disparities with local data
By: Steven Whitman, Ami M. Shah, Maureen Benjamins.
Contributors: Shah, Ami M.; Benjamins, Maureen.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199731190
Subjects: Urban health -- Illinois -- Chicago; Health surveys -- Illinois -- Chicago; Healthcare Disparities -- Chicago; Urban Health Services -- Chicago; Community Health Services -- Chicago; Health Surveys -- Chicago; Models, Organizational -- Chicago
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing the Sinai model for reducing health disparities and improving health / Steven Whitman, Ami M. Shah, and Maureen R. Benjamins; title: A history of the movement to address health disparities / Jade L. Dell and Steven Whitman; title: The importance of local data : introduction to section 2 / Ami M. Shah, Steven Witman, Maureen R. Benjamins; title: Sinai's improving community health survey : methodology and key findings / Ami M. Shah and Steven Whitman; title: The Jewish community health survey of Chicago : methodology and key findings / Maureen R. Benjamins; title: The Chicago Asian community surveys : methodology and key findings / Matthew J. McGee ... [et al.]; title: Comparing the health status of ten Chicago communities / Ami M. Shah; title: Translating data into action : introduction to section 3 / Steven Whitman, Ami M. Shah, and Maureen R. Benjamins; title: Working together to live tobacco free : community-based smoking cessation in North Lawndale / Joseph F. West and Charlene J. Gamboa; title: Combating childhood obesity through a neighborhood coalition : community organizing for obesity prevention in Humboldt Park / Adam B. Becker ... [et al.]; title: Fighting childhood obesity in a Jewish community / Maureen R. Benjamins; title: Disproportionate impact of diabetes in a Puerto Rican community of Chicago / Steven Whitman ... [et al.]; title: Pediatric asthma in African American and Latino Chicago communities : local level data drives response / Helen Margellos-Anast, Melissa A. Gutierrez; title: Humboldt Park : a community united to challenge asthma / Molly Martin and Juana Ballesteros; title: Community-based health interventions : past, present, and future / Leah Ansell; title: The future holds promise / Steven Whitman, Ami M. Shah, and Maureen R. Benjamins.