Preface -- Acknowledgments -- ch. 1. Heroes of community health -- ch. 2. Mississippi : where it all began -- ch. 3. Boston : the way democracy ought to work -- ch. 4. The South Carolina low country : a homegrown black power structure -- ch 5. New York : health care is a right -- ch. 6. The Rio Grande valley of Texas : steps from the third world -- ch. 7. The health center legacy -- Notes -- Interviews -- Index
Summary
America has set ambitious goals for improving health, but they are doomed to failure unless we address persistent and in some cases widening disparities by income and race. This book tells the story of one groundbreaking approach that attacks the problem by focusing on the wellness of whole neighborhoods. Since their creation during the 1960s, community health centers have served the needs of the poor in the tenements of New York, the colonias of Texas, the working-class neighborhoods of Boston, and the dirt farms of the South. As products of the civil rights movement, the early centers provid
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