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Roz Lasker, MD, Director of the Division of Public Health and the Center for the Advancement of Collaborative Strategies in Health at NYAM, and John Guidry, formerly Associate Director of the Center, have authored a groundbreaking book on community engagement. Entitled Engaging the Community in Decision Making: Case Studies Tracking Participation, Voice and Influence, the book describes how five community partnerships, working with the authors and other researchers, opened up the "black box" of community participation and looked at influence directly.
The rapidly growing field of community participation has promised to give people formerly excluded decision making an influential voice about issues that affect their lives. Inclusive processes implemented in the United States and internationally have certainly given community members new opportunities to participate and be involved, but how effective are these processes in promoting the voice and influence of the people who have historically been excluded the most—the poorest, least educated, and most marginalized residents in communities? Of the various participants who have "a seat at the table," whose voices are influential, whose aren’t, and why?
Over the last four years, a workgroup organized by NYAM developed new methods to answer these questions. Investigating 10 cases ??? two from each community partnership ??? the study tracks the ideas of everyone involved and reveals how and why the ideas of marginalized and ordinary residents were far less likely to be influential than those of people with more clout, resources, or acknowledged expertise.
In the book, Drs. Lasker and Guidry explain how these influence inequities can be overcome, providing readers with practical, evidence-based tools to help them do so. The book is intended for practitioners, funders, and evaluators involved in any form of community participation ??? from participatory research to civic engagement, deliberative democracy, and comprehensive community initiatives ??? as well as students and professionals who seek to use their academic expertise to benefit people in disadvantaged communities.
For information about the book and to place orders, click here
Posted on February 12, 2009
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The 2012-2013 Duncan Clark Lecture - The Affordable Care Act: An Insider’s View
Featured Speaker: Sherry Glied, PhD, former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
November 19, 2012 - The NYAM Section on Health Care Delivery welcomes Sherry Glied, PhD, former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, who will deliver the 2012-2013 Duncan Clark Lecture on "The Affordable Care Act: An Insider's View."
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The New York Academy of Medicine with support from the New York State Heath Foundation released a new report, Federal Health Care Reform in New York State: A Population Health Perspective.
This report identifies opportunities that build on both the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (ACA) and New York’s ongoing efforts toward improving the health of its 19 million residents.
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