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Communities Creating Health: What would happen if the design, implementation and evaluation of health interventions became something we do with communities rather than to them? Kindle Edition

by Pritpal S. Tamber (Author, Editor), Bridget B. Kelly (Editor), Leigh Carroll (Editor), Format: Kindle Edition

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People want to lead satisfying lives, and that includes feeling well. Health as defined by medicine is only part of feeling well, and yet the overwhelming majority of our society’s health investments go to the health care sector for clinical services or public health interventions. While these services are important, their dominance detracts from supporting other things that have the potential to create health.

Medicine’s narrow definition of health reinforces this dominance, which determines what we value, how we design interventions, and what we measure to determine success or failure. This is all too apparent in the requirements of funders, the experiences of implementers, and the perspectives of evaluators.

There is a large gap between what society provides to improve health and what communities want. What would happen if the design, implementation, and evaluation of health interventions became something we do with communities rather than to them? Understanding the goals that communities see for themselves, and pursuing those along with medically defined ones, has the potential to create lasting improvements in health.

Co-edited by Pritpal S. Tamber, Bridget B. Kelly, and Leigh Carroll on behalf of the Creating Health Collaborative and Jenifer Morgan of Stanford Social Innovation Review, this series brings together the voices of community members, implementers, evaluators, and funders, and builds on a meeting hosted by the Institute of Medicine in August 2014 on how evaluations in health can align more closely with what communities value.

This is the second edition. The content is the same as the first edition but the front cover and 'About This Book' section have been updated to reflect that the Creating Health Collaborative is now part of Bridging Health & Community.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B014X4QUWA
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pritpal S Tamber Ltd; 2nd edition (September 3, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 3, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1003 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 121 pages
Lending ‏ : ‎ Enabled

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As a health care provider I worked for many years providing direct care to patients. Recently I changed my job. I now have an opportunity to look beyond providing direct care and to look at what really impacts the health of individuals and communities. I found reading the articles in Communities Creating Health helped me better understand of how communities are working to improve the health. It is challenging and complex work and I would highly recommend reading this book to gain insight and ideas what can be done and what is working to improve the health of communities.

M.Gula.