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November 2003, Vol 93, No. 11 | American Journal of Public Health 1797-1799
© 2003 American Public Health Association

EDITORIAL

Valuing Families and Meeting Them Where They Are

Deborah Zahn, MPH, Sherry Hirota, Jane Garcia, MPH and Marguerite J. Ro, MPH, DrPH

Deborah Zahn is with the Community Voices Project, Sherry Hirota is with Asian Health Services, and Jane Garcia is with La Clínica de La Raza, all in Oakland, Calif. Marguerite J. Ro is with the SDOS Division of Community Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, and is a consultant for The W. K. Kellogg Foundation’s Community Voices Initiative.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Deborah Zahn, MPH, Community Voices Project, 1320 Harbor Bay Parkway, Suite 250, Alameda, CA 94502 (e-mail: dzahn@chcn-eb.org).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.


   INTRODUCTION
 
The United States is a land of contradictions. The dominant culture holds the individual to be primary and at the same time claims to place the greatest value on the family. Despite the rhetoric of "family values," our nation’s programs and policies—which typically are based on discrete categories of individuals—often fall short of providing the support needed to truly value families. By fragmenting families into mere groupings of individuals, programs and policies often fail to provide the support families need not just to survive but to thrive. Our emphasis on this fragmentation often ties the hands of agencies that want . . . [Full Text]


   ALLIANCE FAMILY CARE—FILLING THE GAP IN HEALTH COVERAGE
 

   NO WRONG DOOR—AN INCLUSIVE ENROLLMENT POLICY
 

   KEEPING FAMILIES HEALTHY
 

   DIVERSE FAMILY STRUCTURES
 

   LESSONS LEARNED IN ALAMEDA COUNTY
 



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