Project CHARGE: Building an Urban Health Policy Advocacy Community

Project CHARGE: building an urban health policy advocacy community.

BACKGROUND The Coalition for Health Access to Reach Greater Equity (Project CHARGE) is a health policy advocacy coalition devoted to improving healthcare access for Asian Americans in New York City. OBJECTIVES This paper discusses Project CHARGE's strategies for building a successful coalition. METHODS Findings are based on evaluation data from field observations and surveys of Coalition re...

Health policy and systems research: building momentum and community

Editorials 851 In October 2014, nearly 2000 people from 125 countries shared and debated issues that are critical to improving the performance of health systems, at the 1 Such research was barely visible on the global health agenda until 1996, when the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Ad Hoc Committee on Health Research identified health systems research as an important but neglected field. ...

Influencing policy--public health advocacy and health inequalities.

The health of an urban community.

Present-day society urgently needs reliable measures, both local and national, of the health of the people. Declines in death rates undoubtedly indicate great improvements in public health in terms of survival, but do not necessarily represent equal declines in the numbers of the sick and the magnitude of their needs. More precise knowledge is needed of ailments and diseases in specific communi...

Engaging students in community health: a public health advocacy curriculum.

Individual risk assessment and behavior change dominate the content of high school health education instruction whereas broader social, political, and economic factors that influence health-known as upstream causes-are less commonly considered. With input from instructors and students, we developed a 10-lesson experiential Public Health Advocacy Curriculum that uses classroom-based activities t...