Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Introduction -- Introduction and overview / Meredith Minkler -- Two tools for well-being : health systems and communications / John L. McKnight -- Part II. Contextual frameworks and models -- Improving health through community organization and community building : a health education perspective / Meredith Minkler and Nina Wallerstein -- Social action community organization : proliferation, persistence, roots, and prospects / Robert Fisher -- Community building practice : a conceptual framework / Cheryl L. Walter -- Part III. The professional's role in organization and empowerment for health : values, assumptions, and ethical dilemmas -- Community, community development, and the forming of authentic partnerships : some critical reflections / Ronald LaBonte -- Social change professionals and grassroots organizing : functions and dilemmas / Marc Pilisuk, JoAnn McAllister, Jack Rothman -- Ethical issues in community organization and community participation / Meredith Minkler and Cheri Pies -- Part IV. Community assessment -- Community health assessment or healthy community assessment : whose community? Whose health? Whose Assessment? / Trevor Hancock and Meredith Minkler -- Mappping community capacity / John L. McKnight and John P. Kretzmann -- Part V. Issue selection and the creating of critical consciousness -- Selecting and "cutting" the issue / Lee Staples -- Freirian Praxis in health education and community organizing : a case study of an adolescent prevention program / Nina Wallerstein, Victoria Sanchez-Merki, Lily Dow -- Part VI. Community organizing and community building within and across diverse groups -- Education, participation, and capacity building in community organizing with women of color / Lorraine M. Gutierrez and Edith A. Lewis -- Community organizing and community building among Gay and bisexual men: the STOP AIDS project / Dan Wohlfeiler -- Community organizing among the elderly poor in San Francisco's tenderloin district / Meredith Minkler -- Part VII. Building and maintaining effective coalitions -- Understanding coalitions and how they operate : an "open systems" organizational framework / Abraham Wandersman, Robert M. Goodman, Frances D. Butterfoss -- Coalition building to prevent childhood lead poisoning : a case study from New York City / Daniel Kass and Nicholas Freudenberg -- Part VIII. Measuring community empowerment -- Using empowerment evaluation in community organizing and community-based health initiatives / Chris M. Coombe -- Community building through empowering evaluation : a case study of HIV prevention community planning / Kathleen M. Roe ... [et al.] -- Part IX. New tools for community organizing and community building into the twenty-first century -- Online computer networks : potential and challenges for community organizing and community building now and in the future / Courtney Uhler Cart -- Media advocacy : a strategy for empowering people and communities / Lawrence Wallack.

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