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Session 1
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Introduction to the AHEC and the Community

Resources
  1. See Service Learning and Composition at the Crossroads by Adler-Kassner, Crooks, Watters at http://www.aahe.org/pubs/SL_Comp.htm. AAHE Series on Service-Learning in the Disciplines.


  2. Read: Four Things Faculty Want to Know About discusses Service-Learning characteristics.See http://www.fiu.edu/~time4chg/Library/fourthings.html·


  3. Reflection: Getting Learning Out of Service talks about writing a reflective journal. See http://www.fiu.edu/~time4chg/Library/reflect.html


  4. See http://dchealth.dc.gov/index.asp. At this site, you will find the DC health statistics.


  5. Introduction to "Building Communities from the Inside Out" introduces the asset approach to community assessment.
    http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/publications/community/buildingblurb.html
  6. This Community Tool Box chapter, Identifying Community Assets and Resources, describes community assets and how to assess them. http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/tools/en/sub_section_main_1043.htm
Activity #1 Web Readings
Activity #2 - RESOURCES FOR HEALTHCARE STATISTICS:
  1. DC Department of Health - Reports
    http://dchealth.dc.gov/information/reports/index.shtm


  2. Kaiser Family Foundation Reports of Health
    (Reports of various state health statistics)
    http://www.statehealthfacts.kff.org


  3. National Center for Health Statistics
    (locate state statistics under individual state headings)
    http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats


  4. Various State Health Department websites
Activity #3
Recommended Readings:  
  Perceptions and Misperceptions of Skin Color

Caldwell, Stephen H.; Popenoe, Rebecca. Annals of Internal Medicine. Volume 122(8) 15 April 1995 pp 614-617

  Identifying Ethnicity in Medicine Huth, Edward J. Identifying Ethnicity in Medical Papers. Annals of Internal Medicine. 122(8):619-621 (1995).
Links to the partner libraries:
GWU: http://www.gwumc.edu/library
GU: http://www.georgetown.edu/dml/
Howard: http://www.howard.edu/library/~hsl/default.htm
Catholic: http://libraries.cua.edu/
Files:
File Title Notes
National AHEC Model and the DC AHEC This is a MS Word document
The State of Healthcare in DC This is a MS Word document