Community Health Centers

Author: Ms. Bonnie Lefkowitz
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0813539129
Category: Medical

Community Health Centers: A Movement and the People Who Made It Happen (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)

The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has placed a national spotlight on the shameful state of healthcare for America's poor. Download Community Health Centers medical books for free.
In the face of this highly publicized disaster, public health experts are more concerned than ever about persistent disparities that result from income and race.

This book tells the story of one groundbreaking approach to medicine 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 provided not only Get Community Health Centers our bestseller medical books.

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