Community-Based Health Interventions in an Institutional Context

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Arxer, Steven L. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Murphy, John W. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, and Practice,
• Subjects: Health psychology.; Social service.; Health promotion.; Medical research.; Health Psychology.; Social Work and Community Development.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Quality of Life Research.

Community-Based Health Interventions in an Institutional Context examines challenges of "institutionalizing" community-based health care. While the community-based or localized model is growing in popularity and importance in the United States, in practice it must often be brought in to la...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• A Community-Based Organization
• Establishing Community-Based Primary Health Care
• Community-Based Funding and Budgeting: Participatory Budgeting as a Transformative Act
• Aims of a Community-Based Research Program
• Training Community-Based Health Workers
• Creating a Community Health Worker Training Program
• Is the Affordable Care Act Encouraging Hospitals to Engage their Communities
• Community-Based Political Interventions
• Re-Examining the Role of Patients in Community-Based Interventions
• Work as Health: Tensions of Imposing Work Requirements to Medicaid Patients in the United States
• Overcoming Institutional Barriers Faced by Community-Based Health Care Institutions
• Conclusion.