title: Outreach: targeting high-risk women through community partnerships.
abstract: The need for community-based preventive intervention is driven by the ineffectiveness and the costliness of traditional approaches. We argue that community outreach efforts should be characterized by three components: 1) careful mapping of high-risk areas, 2) developing partnerships with trusted community institutions within areas of high risk, and 3) developing a portfolio of institutional partners that maximize the penetration of high-risk populations. The analysis of these high-risk contexts redirects the focus from individuals to institutional structures. Gaining a greater understanding of how impoverished women relate to formal institutions is critical to the primary goal of reducing unnecessary deaths.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
authors.forename: Kathlyn
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Barry
authors.forename: David W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Britt
mesh_terms: D018672:Community Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019058:Community Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations / Q000592:standards*; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008913:Minority Groups; D017146:Models, Organizational; D011203:Poverty; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States; D014504:Urban Health; D016387:Women's Health