The Work
Our Writing
The documents in this section highlight past and ongoing CommonHealth ACTION programmatic activities and are posted for public benefit.
- A CommonHealth ACTION Report: Aging Preparedness in America: Results and Recommendations from CommonHealth ACTION's 2010 Survey.
- A CommonHealth ACTION Report: Determining the Public's Health: Implications of the Economy, Housing, and Employment
- Telehealth and Telemedicine Offer Significant Benefits for African Americans [Washington Informer]
- A CommonHealth ACTION Report: Using Civic Engagement to Promote the Fair Health Movement
- Tackling Health Inequities Through Public Health Practice Theory to Action [Chapter 24]
- CHA Publication: We’ve Come a Long Way in Building Community Capacity to Meet Public Health Challenges
- A CommonHealth ACTION Report: Poverty as a Social Determinant of Health
- New Orleans: Community Perspectives on the Root Causes of Violence
- PLACE MATTERS Illustration: Impacts of Systemic Racism on Housing and Education
- A CommonHealth ACTION Report – Structural Racism and its Effect on Health
- A CommonHealth ACTION Report – Social Determinants of Health in Alameda County
- State Health Legislation: Shifting the Focus from Health Disparities to Health Equity
- A CommonHealth ACTION Report – Revisiting New Orleans
- A CommonHealth ACTION Report - Place Matters and Logic Models
- A CommonHealth ACTION Report - Katrina and Social Determinants of Health
- A CommonHealth ACTION Report - Life After Katrina: Where Do We Go From Here?
- Press Release [02.24.06] - Meeting on health and housing issues for Katrina evacuee
- Press Release [01.28.05] - CHA-CEDM Safe Recovery Partnership
- Article on CommonHealth ACTION in Turning Point's Transformations Publication
Relevant Publications
Lafronza, V. “Lessons from the Turning Point Initiative: Implications for Public Health Practice and Social Justice.” Chapter Eight appears in Tackling Health Inequities Through Public Health Practice: A Handbook for Action. National Association of County and City Health Officials, July, 2006, p. 137-154. For a free copy of the entire handbook, visit www.naccho.org/pubs/product1.cfm?Product_ID=11
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Eilbert, K., & Lafronza, V. “Working Together for Community Health: A Model and Case Studies.” Evaluation and Program Planning, 28(2), May, 2005: 185-199.
Growing Older in America: How Prepared Are You?: Fndings from a 2005 CommonHealth ACTION National Survey
Dilworth-Anderson, P., Gibson, B., & Burke, J. M. D. (2006). Working with African American families. In G. Yeo & D. Gallagher-Thompson (Eds.). Ethnicity and the Dementias (2nd. Ed.). Routledge/Taylor & Francis. To purchase, visit www.routledge-ny.com
B. Berkowitz, R. Nicola, V. Lafronza, and B. Beckemeier, “Turning Point’s Legacy,” Journal of Public Health Management and Practice 11(2) (2005): 97.
Rauf, Z., Lafronza, V., Fraser, M., Brown, C., and Cope, J. Local and State Collaboration for Effective Preparedness Planning. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, January 2003.
Berkowitz, B., Nicola, B., & Lafronza, V.N. Issue Editors: Turning Point: Collaborating for a New Century in Public Health. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, January 2002.
Rhein, M., Lafronza, V., Bhandari, E., Hawes, J., & Hofrichter, R. Advancing Community Public Health Systems in the 21st Century. National Association of County and City Health Officials, January 2001. To order, visit
www.naccho.org/pubs/product1.cfm?Product_ID=35
