Community Partners for Health: Urban Health Coalitions in Lagos, Nigeria

2000 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Brieger ◽  
Sam A. Orisasona ◽  
P. Bolade Ogunlade ◽  
U. Olu. Ayodele ◽  
Ayo Iroko
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Child Survival ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
The Public ◽  
Awareness Campaigns ◽  
Community Based Organizations

Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival (BASICS) was given a mandate by USAID to find innovative ways to meet the child health needs of poor Nigerian urban communities. BASICS inventoried communities in the Lagos metropolitan area to identify community-based organizations (CBOs) and private health facilities (HFs) that could form coalitions that might plan and deliver child and family health services such as immunization and prompt treatment. Six Community Partners for Health (CPHs) coalitions formed in late 1995. In late 1997, a documentation of the progress and processes of CPH formation and functioning was carried out through a review of documents, interviews with CPH leaders, discussions with CBO members, and textual analysis of CPH board meeting minutes to define the CPH approach, the organizational structures that result from that approach, the achievements of the CPHs and the potential sustainability of the approach. All CPHs have developed a work plan and all have undertaken programmatic activities including child immunization campaigns, environmental clean-up, and awareness campaigns to alert the public on the dangers of HIV/AIDS. Most CPHs have also developed three main mechanisms for financial sustainability. Finally, CPHs have also been calling on each other for technical and management assistance. This augers well for future independent action and sustainability, and BASICS staff themselves have been promoting inter-CPH communication and activities among the Lagos CPHs.

Ethical Challenges Community-Based Researchers and Community-Based Organizations Face

2019 ◽  
pp. 101-120
Author(s):  
Margaret R. Boyd
Keyword(s):  
Higher Learning ◽  
Institutional Review Boards ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Professional Boundaries ◽  
Community Based Organizations ◽  
Institutional Review ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning

Community-based research (CBR) has grown rapidly since its origins and has helped to make substantial and positive changes within communities. The goals of CBR are to collaborate with community-based organizations (CBOs) and community partners in culturally sensitive, synergistic relationships to address community-defined problems and find community-relevant solutions. This chapter focuses on the ethical challenges that community-based researchers and CBOs face when working with traditional Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) to guide and evaluate their projects. Traditional IRB standards regarding informed consent, personal and professional boundaries, and decisions regarding risks and benefits to communities need to change. Academic researchers, community partners, IRBs, and institutions of higher learning must work together so that community-based researchers and CBOs can continue to work in community and communities for social justice and social change.

Universities, Unjust Law, and Campus Sanctuaries

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-100
Author(s):  
A. Naomi Paik
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Intellectual Freedom ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Public ◽  
Community Based Organizations ◽  
Us Presidential Election

This essay examines the campus sanctuary movement that launched in response to the 2016 US presidential election. It focuses on the case of my employer to illuminate the broader context of the campus sanctuary movement's nationwide emergence, including the neoliberal evisceration of higher education and right-wing attacks on intellectual freedom and demands for social justice. Recognizing that the institution will not save us, sanctuary organizers not only demand that institutions use their resources for the public good, but they also work beyond the confines of institutions to build the resources that we need through community-based organizations.

The asylum and the community

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-34
Author(s):  
Ian Cummins
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Mental Health Policy ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Form ◽  
New Institutions ◽  
Community Based Services

This chapter will argue that the development of mental health policy was hugely influenced by conceptions of space and place. By the middle of the 20th century the asylum had become, in the public and sociological imagination a Gothic institution of seclusion and abuse. The chapter will explore the development of this representation of the asylum. The final representations of the asylum contrast dramatically with the original ones that saw the new institutions as a modern, progressive deinstitutionalisation was to present the community in binary opposition to the asylum. Community based services would, almost by reason of their location, lead to the creation of a new form of inclusive mental health provision. This is based on an idealised notion of community. As the pressures on mental health services grew, a range of social policies that were introduced that meant that urban communities, in particular, became exclusionary rather than inclusionary.

Implementing Evidence-Based Media Engagement Practices to Address Cancer Disparities

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Racquel E. Kohler ◽  
Shoba Ramanadhan ◽  
K. Viswanath
Keyword(s):  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Public Programs ◽  
Project Impact ◽  
The Public ◽  
Community Based Organizations ◽  
Or Practice

Public knowledge and understanding of health disparities is critical to generate support for programs and policies that address social determinants of health (SDH). Yet, public programs and policies are little informed by evidence or the link between SDH and health outcomes. This case study, using community-based participatory research principles, draws from the evidence of SDH and communication sciences. We describe Project IMPACT, an intervention to build capacity among community-based organizations (CBOs) to engage with media strategically, with the goal of influencing the information environment. The case offers an example of implementation science supporting an evidence-based approach, rather than a specific program or practice. We report how IMPACT leveraged the role community partners play in legitimizing issues so SDH and disparities are part of the public agenda. We assessed how strategic media engagement practices were implemented with the ultimate goal of changing public understanding of SDH and disparities to support SDH-related policies.

Faith-Based Interventions for At-Risk Latino Youths: A Study of Outcomes

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen V. Monsma ◽  
Corwin E. Smidt
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Intervention Programs ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Initiatives ◽  
The Public ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Community Based Organizations ◽  
Community Based Programs ◽  
The Government

AbstractThis is a study of the comparative outcome success experienced by 2748 participants in government-funded faith-based and community-based intervention programs for at-risk and adjudicated Latino youths run by 28 providers in five western cities. The Latino Coalition, an intermediary faith-based organization, subcontracted with 28 sub-grantees that provided the services from 2005–2008. The study found similar outcomes were experienced by youths in the faith-based versus the community-based programs, but it did find significantly different outcomes by the comprehensive versus non-comprehensive nature of the programs. The study places its findings in the context of faith-based and community initiatives and draws conclusions concerning the public policy implications of the government partnering with faith-based and community-based organizations to provide public services to needy, and especially minority, populations.

Health Care and Community-Based Organization Partnerships to Address Social Needs: Medicare Advantage Plan Representatives’ Perspectives

2021 ◽  
pp. 107755872110097
Author(s):  
Shayla N. M. Durfey ◽  
Emily A. Gadbois ◽  
David J. Meyers ◽  
Joan F. Brazier ◽  
Terrie Wetle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Medicare Advantage ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
Community Based Organizations ◽  
Organizational Infrastructure ◽  
Improved Outcomes ◽  
Community Based Organization

Payers and providers are increasingly being held accountable for the overall health of their populations and may choose to partner with community-based organizations (CBOs) to address members’ social needs. This study examines the opportunities and challenges that health care entities, using Medicare Advantage (MA) plans as an example, encounter when forming these relationships. We conducted interviews with 38 representatives of 17 MA organizations, representing 65% of MA members nationally. Transcripts were qualitatively analyzed to understand overarching themes. Participants described qualities they look for in community partners, including an alignment of organizational missions and evidence of improved outcomes. Participants also described challenges in working with CBOs, including needing an evidence base for CBOs’ services and an absence of organizational infrastructure. Results demonstrate areas where CBOs may target their efforts to appeal to payers and providers and reveal a need for health care entities to assist CBOs in acquiring skills necessary for partnerships.

scholarly journals PENOLAKAN MASYARAKAT TERHADAP GERAKAN DAKWAH MAJLIS TAFSIR AL-QUR’AN (MTA) DI KEBUMEN

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Laili Alfi Rohmah
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
The Public ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Community Based Organizations ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
The City

Penelitian ini mengkaji dakwah Majlis Tafsir Al-Qur’an di kota Kebumen. Majlis Tafsir Al-Qur’an beranggapan tradisi Islam tidak sesuai dengan tuntutan ajaran Al-Qur’an dan sunnah yang telah ditetapkan oleh Nabi. Saat ini gerakan Majlis Tafsir Al-Qur’an sudah berkembang hingga berbagai daerah-daerah di Indonesia, masyarakat memiliki dasar teologi dan ideologi yang kuat. Dakwah Majlis Tafsir Al-Aqur’an memberikan beberapa respon dari masyarakat. Masyarakat menolak dengan beberapa faktor seperti perbedaan ajaran perbedaan ideologi, dan budaya menjadi salah satu masalah dakwah Majlis Tafsir Al-Qur’an karena tidak sesuai dengan budaya masyarakat setempat, hingga memberikan perubahan ketidaknyamanan masyarakat karena telah terusik. Artikel ini mencoba untuk memperluas kajian islam tentang isu organisasi masyarakat berbasis agama Islam pada tiga Desa Kecamatan Adimulyo Kebumen. Kajian ini juga menggunakan beberapa konflik yang sama di daerah yang berbeda seperti Bojonegoro, Blora, Sragen, Gunungkidul, dan Purworejo. Majlis Tafsir Al-Qur’an sejak awal dakwah pengajian ini dianggap sesat oleh sebagian masyarakat, konflik yang terjadi antara masyarakat dan Majlis Tafsir Al-Qur’an tidak hanya pada ideologi saja tetapi juga menimbulkan kekerasan. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah studi pustaka melalui media sosial, dan literature terkait. Penolakan yang terjadi merupakan segmen dakwah yang berbeda-beda dapat mendatangkan respon baik penolakan atau penerimaan dari masyarakat.Kata kunci: dakwah majlis tafsir al-qur’an, konflik, masyarakat beragamaThis study examines the da’wah of the Majlis Tafsir Al-Qur’an in the city of Kebumen. The Majlis Tafsir Al-Qur’an considers the Islamic tradition is not in accordance with the demands of the teachings of the Qur’an and the sunnah set by the Prophet. At present the Majlis Tafsir Al-Qur’an movement has developed to various regions in Indonesia, the community has a strong theology and ideology basis. Da’wah Majlis Tafsir Al-Aqur’an gives some responses from the public. The community refused with several factors such as differences in the teachings of ideological differences, and culture became one of the problems of preaching the Majlis Tafsir Al-Qur’an because it was not in accordance with the culture of the local community, so as to provide changes in community discomfort because it was disturbed. This article tries to expand Islamic studies on the issue of Islamic community-based organizations in three villages in the Adimulyo Kebumen sub-district. This study also uses some of the same conflicts in different areas such as Bojonegoro, Blora, Sragen, Gunungkidul, and Purworejo. Majlis Tafsir Al-Qur’an since the beginning of this preaching session is considered heretical by some people, the conflict that occurs between the community and the Majlis Tafsir Al-Qur’an is not only on ideology but also causes violence. The method used in this research is literature study through social media, and related literature. Rejection that occurs is a different da’wah segment can bring a response either rejection or acceptance from the community.Keywords: da’wah majlis tafsir al-quran, conflict, religious society

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