#377
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:55:18 -0400
From: Suzy Harrington <harringtonsuzy@AOL.COM>
Subject: bad GPS
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#378
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:02:17 -0400
From: Penny Bailey <penny.bailey@TRHD.DST.NC.US>
Subject: Re: social determinants of health
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Most funding sources will not allow for this approach.
In the housing community instead of going with the money source for identifying health issues or even the issues identified by statistics as the major health issue, we asked the community. We identified a leader by determining who was the natural helper. We gathered leaders and community members together and had them identify health issue and identify solutions
using Paulo Friere tools. The evaluation tool was a continuum; staff
initiated health concerns, staff initiated resource development. and staff initiated solutions to community member initiated health concerns, etc .
The goal was community initiated ideas, resource development and follow through.
If an individual can "name" it , develop resources and follow through any health issue is solvable.
In my experience, being able to "name" it and be part of the planning are the most important steps and the most difficult because of funding sources. It is also very threatening to those who are used to being the expert.
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#379
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:19:27 -0700
From: Mark Fulop <markfulop@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: social determinants of health
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Penny,
I saw you posted this to me and not the list. As always, I think your comments add to the conversation. The approach we have taken is almost entirely grant funded. In fact, policy change was explicitly part of our HUD Grant and our newer CDC Grant. There is a difference doing "advocacy" and policy work is different than lobbying, which is "defined by federal tax law as any attempt to influence specific legislation. Legislation means a bill that has been introduced, or a draft bill that may be introduced in any legislative body such as a city council, state legislature or Congress. Again, our work to date has been hosting policy summits, meeting with local leaders to educate them about the issues, and participating on the City appointed workkgroup to create a set of recommendations for policy change.
Long ago and far away, in my earliest professional life, a huge chunk of my health educator duties related to policy change around tobacco control. More than once, in my formal role of a county employee, I testified before city councils trying to get them to ban smoking in restaraunts, restrict cigarrette vending machines, etc.. So, policy work is a great public health strategy that is allowed in many grants.
BUT ALSO, your point on using Friere's popular education strategies to evoke a bottom up change is also an important one. Policy work can be very disempowering and paternalistic in its approach and we have been careful to try and avoid that. Through our patnering community groups we have two participatory research projects underway that use a "community as expert" approach to health and housing issues and as a county, another more traditional health education project is to use a popular education approach to engage tenants and the landlord/ management company of a rental housing complex in developing a partnership approach to addressing environmental health risks.
Additionally, in the Quality Rental Housing Workgroup we have as full partners members of disproportionaley effected communities. and, in the recommendations that are emerging, the themes of culture-based and community-driven solutions live and breathe.
Thanx again for your thoughts. We are learning from each other.
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Mark Fulop, MA, MPH
Portland, OR
“We must re-imagine, re-define, and re-create equity at the crossroads of social justice and ecology of business and activism, of spirituality and social change, of local and global activism. And if we can do that, we won't be taking America back. We'll be taking America forward. Let us begin" ----Van Jones
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#380
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:53:16 -0400
From: "Basso, Michael (CDC/CCID/NCPDCID)" <zlj5@CDC.GOV>
Subject: FW: Webmaster
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