Biomedical subjects

C Irizarry

Publications and source records attributed to C Irizarry.

4 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1998

The Healthy Neighborhoods Project: a local health department's role in catalyzing community development.

Studies show that community development approaches to health education may lead not only to improved social, economic, and health status but also to increased individual participation in health education and preventive health care activities. However, because of categorical funding restraints and philosophical issues, local health departments have rarely given control of defining project outcomes to the community. One such project was in a low-income urban neighborhood in the San Francisco Bay Area. In this Healthy Neighborhoods Project, the health department catalyzed community development and organization in a multiethnic public housing complex. As a result, an empowered community successfully advocated to improve public safety by installing street speed humps and increased street lighting. After project completion, residents initiated several additional health actions, including the removal of a neighborhood tobacco billboard. This article describes the project, which may serve as a model for other urban public health programs to explore their role in community empowerment.

Accidents, Traffic↗

PubMed1997

Seniors-on-line: introducing older people to technology.

Retired Engineers are playing an important role in ensuring that older people are not excluded from the benefits of technological advances. Technology is playing an increasingly important role in the lives of older people as it is incorporated into assistive devices, home security, access to health care, banking, communication and many other areas. However, if older people are unfamiliar with new technologies and find them daunting, they may not benefit fully from these advances. In order to minimize difficulties arising from unfamiliarity with technology, an introductory computer course was offered to people aged 55 and over. Teaching methods appropriate to the needs of older people were used: small classes, students and instructors from same age cohort, slow pace of presentation and ample opportunity to ask questions. Retired Engineers make up the majority of instructors. Three hundred and sixty nine older people have participated in the course and most plan to continue using a computer.

Aged↗

PubMed1993

Social work leadership development through international exchange.

Social workers in large bureaucratic settings face the pressure to define their service in relation to other professional disciplines and to maintain a quality service despite conflicting mandates and economic restraints. Few strategies exist for providing training and education to senior social workers in order to help them develop leadership roles in multidisciplinary environments. This paper examines the characteristics and qualities necessary to provide social work leadership in a complex hospital environment. The ideas emerged from an international leadership exchange program with The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. Aspects of this experience are used to illustrate leadership roles.

Academic Medical Centers↗

PubMed1993

Bringing it home: Australian social workers implement leadership program values.

Two senior social workers from major teaching hospitals in Adelaide, South Australia, were the first participants from Australia in Mount Sinai's leadership exchange program, from November 1, 1990 to January 31, 1992. The two participants were eager, excited, and strongly committed to participating fully in the project. They left Australia with the intent to bring back new skills, insights, and vision--for themselves, their hospitals, and the social work profession. They returned with advanced skills and insights and remarkably altered attitudes toward research, writing for publication, their relationship with academia, leadership and management, the development of innovative programs, and information systems. And, they returned with a clear international perspective of their profession, its uniqueness and its opportunities.

Australia↗