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Educational Parties as a Strategy to Promote Breast Health Awareness and Screening in Underserved Female Populations - Sharon Byrne and Evelyn Robles-Rodriguez, (March, 2009)
Nursing professionals involved in institutional and community outreach efforts to improve breast health are experiencing an increasing need for innovative strategies to attract women to participate in early-detection and screening programs. Specifically, many programs have been developed in an attempt to increase participation rates among women in community breastscreening activities or mammography programs (Borrayo, 2004; Bonfill, Marzo, & Pladevall, 2001; Synder et al., 2003). The programs have involved methods such as letters of invitation, educational material by mail, telephone recruitment and follow-up, and educational activities including lectures and video presentations. However, despite such efforts, a need still exists to educate and motivate disadvantaged women (who are affected by health disparities or inequities related to early detection of breast cancer) to engage in breast cancer screening to reduce their risk of mortality resulting from late detection.
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Gendered, material, and partial knowledges: a feminist critique of neighborhood-level indicator systems - Kate Driscoll Derickson, (2009)
As researchers and community-based organizations increasingly move toward a more holistic approach' to addressing urban problems, the use of neighborhood-level social indicator systems as a tool to inform resident activism is becoming common practice. In this paper, I use a feminist theoretical framework to critically assess the epistemology and methodology of current practices in the use and development of neighborhood-level indicator systems. Using the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership as a framework, I critique the practices of using quantitative, spatial statistics to `democratize information' within the feminist theoretical debates surrounding the production of knowledge, the use of quantitative methods, difference across gender, essentialism versus antiessentialism, and the discursive production of gender. In so doing, I demonstrate the importance of a feminist theoretical and practical perspective in informing the future development of urban neighborhood-level indicator systems.
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Leveraging public nonprofit partnerships for IT innovation: Building effective neighborhood information systems - Sungsoo Hwang (2008)
This is a study of Neighborhood Information System (NIS) across the U.S. This dissertation investigates the publicnonprofit partnerships of building NIS and evaluates their effectiveness in being a tool for local governance. I employed an extensive study, including a nationwide survey, and an intensive study, including qualitative case analyses. Neighborhood indicators play a critical role for local governance as they provide necessary information about neighborhoods. Recently, Neighborhood Information Systems (NIS) have been developed in the cities across the U.S. to provide better access to local data and information to community development stakeholders. National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP), at the Urban Institute brings many local NIS together, acting as a headquarter unit.
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