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Robert M Pestronk

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PubMed2004

Flint Photovoice: community building among youths, adults, and policymakers.

Flint Photovoice represents the work of 41 youths and adults recruited to use a participatory-action research approach to photographically document community assets and concerns, critically discuss the resulting images, and communicate with policymakers. At the suggestion of grassroots community leaders, we included policymakers among those asked to take photographs. In accordance with previously established photovoice methodology, we also recruited at the project's outset another group of policymakers and community leaders to provide political will and support for implementing photovoice participants' policy and program recommendations. Flint Photovoice enabled youths to express their concerns about neighborhood violence to policymakers and was instrumental in acquiring funding for local violence prevention. We note salutary outcomes produced by the inclusion of policymakers among adults who took photographs.

Adolescent↗
PubMed2002

Planting a seed.

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Community Health Planning↗
PubMed2002

Protecting our vulnerable food supply.

From farmyard to dinner table, our food supply presents ample opportunity for dangerous microorganisms or their products to thrive and infect or intoxicate human beings, often with harmful and sometimes fatal results. Traditional controls to protect the food supply include, but are not limited to, law and regulation. But law and regulation are only enablers, an underpinning. Most important to protection of the food supply is organizational leadership and commitment at federal, state, and local levels of government to protect the public's health. This article provides examples of such leadership in locales as diverse as Australia, New Zealand, and Genesee County, Michigan. Even when a supportive law is in place and the will and resources to make the law work exist, competing political and economic world-views are constantly at work to amend the law and thus adversely affect the public's health.

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A partnership to reduce African American infant mortality in Genesee County, Michigan.

A partnership in Genesee County, Michigan, has been working to reduce African American infant mortality. A plan was developed utilizing "bench" science and community residents' "trench" knowledge. Its theoretical foundation is ecological, grounded in a philosophy of public health as social justice, and based on the understanding that cultural beliefs and practices can be both protective and harmful. Partners agree that no single intervention will eliminate racial disparities and that interventions must precede, include, and follow the period of pregnancy. Core themes for the work include: reducing racism, enhancing the medical care and social services systems, and fostering community mobilization. Strategies include community dialogue and raising awareness, education and training, outreach and advocacy, and mentoring and support. The evaluation has several components: scrutinizing the effect of partnership activities on direct measures of infant health; analyzing changes in knowledge, attitudes, behaviors and other mediating variables thought to influence maternal and infant health; and effecting changes in personal and organizational policy and practice.

Adult↗
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Why just prepare for emergencies when full use is possible?

Emergency preparedness, fits within the larger context of governmental public health preparedness. Full use of current, appropriations for learning management, education, and training systems designed for emergency preparedness can prepare and retain the current workforce to promote health and prevent disease, while recruiting the next generation to the governmental public health workforce.

Disaster Planning↗