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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"community advocacy"”.
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Nutrition Education and Community Advocacy at Marin Health and Human Services
<p>It would be a mistake to assume that all Marin neighborhoods look the same. The life expectancy in Ross is over 88 years. Less than 10 miles away in Hamilton Novato, the life expectancy is 75 years. That is a 13 year difference in life expectancy, roughly equivalent to the difference between …
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Effectiveness of Waste Segregation in Enhancing Sustainable Management in Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria
… informal waste pickers, and enhancing community advocacy. These measures collectively address behavioral and systemic obstacles to sustainable waste management in Akure.
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Managing neighborhood change around new transit stops : community planning over four decades in Somerville, MA
… explores the way in which local government and community advocacy groups seek to influence the extent and nature of neighborhood change around new transit stops. My interest is in how transit investment can be used to ensure economically prosperous and environmentally sustainable communities …
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Health Promotion for the Community Advocate
… health professionals to examine the role of community advocacy in health promotion in impoverished communities. In this capstone, I provide a review of relevant literature from epidemiology and the social and behavioral sciences relevant to health promotion to reduce the burden of chronic …
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Memory at work : domestic archives in documentary poetry by women of color
… familial units of privatized space and enable community advocacy and care. In all seven collections, poetry is a medium that allows each poet to liberate the English language from its participation in colonial violence, and use it in the service of new domestic, epistemic, and poetic structures.
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Refugee women’s access to and use of emergency contraceptives as a reproductive health right in Kenya
… a mirage. This research proposes two mechanisms, advocacy and professional accountability, to strengthen health systems as a mitigation to the existing barriers and limited implementation. The advocacy initiatives discussed include policy and budget advocacy, community advocacy, legal advocacy …
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Exploit the Land, Exploit the People: The Treadmill of Production and Community Advocates for Farmworkers in Texas
… semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 16 community advocates for farmworkers in Texas. The results of these interviews demonstrate that community advocates face factors limiting their resistance to the treadmill, including: funding restrictions, the structure of the agricultural industry …
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The Role of Social Capital in a Community Health Worker Model for Grassroots Advocacy
… living along the U.S.-Mexico border. Because community health workers (CHWs) are recognized for promoting a variety of positive patient-centered health outcomes in their roles as educators and health system navigators, recent inquiry has focused on the role of the CHW in facilitating …
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If There Wasn’t Farming, Somebody Wouldn’t Eat: Small Scale Agriculture, Community Autonomy, And Food Sovereignty In Mississippi
… and investigates the ways small farmers and community advocates are drawing upon their land-based heritage and local knowledge systems to create community-controlled food systems in dialogue with broader national and global conversations about sustainable agriculture and food sovereignty. …