Overview
- Addresses the institutional issues in community-based health care.
- Explores the theoretical and practical considerations of "institutionalizing" a community-based model to address the limitations associated with traditional organizations of health care.
- Explains implications for patients, health care providers and institutions of implementing a community-based approach to health care
Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, and Practice (IPSPAP)
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About this book
Community-Based Health Interventions in an Institutional Context examines challenges of "institutionalizing" community-based health care. While the community-based or localized model is growing in popularity and importance in the United States, in practice it must often be brought in to larger institutions in order to grow to scale. The typical goals of an institution—standardization, formalization, and control—may be seen as antithetical to those of a community-based healthcare provider, such as spontaneity, customization, and flexibility.
The contributions to this work raise questions about how the community-based model can be scaled up through institutions, and how "institutionalization" can be rethought from a bottom-up approach. They provide not only an overview of community-based organizations, but also delve into practical topics such as establishing budgets, training workers, incorporating technology, as well as more theoretical topics like goal-setting, policy effects (like the ACA), and relationships between patient and community.
This work will be of interest for researchers interested in exploring the community-based health care model, as well as practitioners in health care and health policy.
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Keywords
- Affordable Care Act (ACA)
- community-based health care
- community-based work
- community well-being
- community-based work in institutions
- institutions
- community-based Organization
- community-based Partnerships
- community-based Health Workers
- community-based Curriculum
- health worker training
- technology and Community-based work
- research program
- community-Based Political Interven
- Hospitals and Community-based Planning
- Community-Based Health Care Institution
- Institutionalized Health Care
- health care
- hospitals and health providers
- public health
Table of contents (13 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
John W. Murphy is professor of sociology at the University of Miami. He received his doctoral degree in 1981 from Ohio State University. His research interests are sociological theory, social philosophy, and globalization. He has published books related to the community mental health movement, the computerization of social service agencies, and contemporary social theory, including The Symbolization of Globalization, Development, and Aging (Springer, 2013).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Community-Based Health Interventions in an Institutional Context
Editors: Steven L. Arxer, John W. Murphy
Series Title: International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, and Practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24654-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24653-2Published: 27 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24656-3Published: 28 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-24654-9Published: 13 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2625-6975
Series E-ISSN: 2625-6983
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 190
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: Health Psychology, Social Work and Community Development, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Quality of Life Research