Out in the rural [electronic resource] : a Mississippi health center and its war on poverty / Thomas J. Ward Jr. ; with a foreword by H. Jack Geiger.

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'Out in the Rural' is the unlikely story of the Tufts-Delta Health Center, which in 1966 opened in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, to become the first rural community health center in the United States. Its goal was simple: to provide health care and outreach to the region's thousands of rural poor, most...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ward, Thomas J., Jr., 1969- (Author)
Other Authors: Geiger, H. Jack (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Online Access:
Oxford Scholarship Online (Public Health and Epidemiology): 2017 (Oxford Academic)
Variant Title:
Out in the Rural: A Mississippi Health Center and Its War on Poverty
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
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  • Foreword / by H. Jack GeigerIntroduction
  • From South Africa to Mississippi
  • Community Organizing
  • Delivering Health Care
  • Environmental Factors
  • The Farm Co-op
  • Conflict and Change
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography.