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Health Beyond Medicine: Field Guide for Evidence-based Community Health Projects

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posted on 2024-04-22, 16:42 authored by Andrew AligneAndrew Aligne

Solving many of our biggest health problems requires a vision of disease causation broader than the bio-medical model. With historical vignettes, illustrations, humor, links to resources, and case studies, Health Beyond Medicine: Field guide for evidence-based community health projects will help readers find an appreciation of the Epidemiologic Triangle and the public health paradigm. We know a lot about how to improve community health but there is a huge gap between what we know and what we do.

Bridging that gap depends on developing skills for implementing effective, evidence-based community health action locally and globally. Topics in this guide include: addressing social determinants of health; partnering with community organizations; predicting health impact of interventions; self-awareness of the culture of medicine; project design and management; evaluation on a shoestring; public speaking, talking to the media and other communications; legislative advocacy and “changing the world” in an hour a month; sustainability beyond grant-writing; behavior change.

The curriculum in this field guide has been replicated at sites across the US and the resultant community-based projects have won multiple national awards. This material has been taught successfully to health professionals from Pediatrics, Preventive Medicine, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Psychology.


Andy Aligne is Director of the Hoekelman Center for Health Beyond Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, New York.


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