Beschreibung:
Addressing the failure of initiatives in community-based service delivery to look beyond practicalities or to consider the tensions in thinking about service delivery, this book explores the significant philosophical shift that is necessary to implement community projects, discussing questions of data, methodology, power and communication.
Introduction: Theory and Community-based Work; 1. Basics of Community-based Work; 2. Unpacking Culture: A Community-based Approach; 3. Developing and Evaluating Community-based Health Interventions: The Role of Data; 4. Methodological Reflections of Research in a Community Service Organization; 5. Community-based Work in the Absence of Identity; 6. A Community Does Not Exist; 7. There Is No Generalizability in Community-based Work; 8. Philosophy and the Embrace of Bias in Community-based Medical Education; 9. Community-based Work and the Natural Language Problem; 10. Power and Positionality in Community-engaged Work and Community-based Participatory Research; Conclusion