In this fifth volume of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Culture of Health series, Community Resilience: Equitable Practices for an Uncertain Future highlights the importance of resilience, or the set of assets that allow a person or place to recover when adversity hits, by illustrating the policies and stories of lived experience surrounding health equity. Whether that adversity is acute--such as an environmental disaster or an abuse of police power--or chronic--such as that engendered by poverty and racism--local innovation and community engagement are key to nurturing resilience and promoting health equity. Community Resilience positions storytelling and narrative shifts as essential to influencing our perceptions of who deserves empathy or support, and who does not, by examining the systemic barriers to resilience and the opportunities to reshape the landscape to overcome those barriers. The central message of this volume--across immigration or imprisonment, opioids or trauma, housing or disaster preparedness--is that we must act intentionally and allow a shift in power in order to make progress.

About the Author
Alonzo L. Plough, PhD, MPH, MA, is the chief science officer and vice president of Research-Evaluation-Learning at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Plough has had a distinguished career in public health practice, academia, and philanthropy. His work focuses on improving health and well-being, and achieving health equity. Plough serves as a board member for many health and social welfare organizations.

Reviews
Community Resilience charts a path for practitioners, policy makers, funders, advocates, and researchers to press an agenda for change and create a healthier world by using story-telling to shift beliefs and behaviors, philanthropy to seed change, and data to spark innovation. If democracy dies in darkness, then equity dies in silence. Community Resilience trumpets its message of hope. * David Abramson, New York University School of Global Public Health *
There is a real need in today's society for the findings of this volume. We must be moving toward a Culture of Health by pushing on and breaking down systemic barriers to community resilience and equity so that real social change and racial healing will occur. * Jamie D. Aten, PhD, Founder and Executive Director, Humanitarian Disaster Institute *
The work in this volume from national thought leaders and accomplished activists inspires hope and direction. Especially relevant in the face of Covid-19 and ongoing climate change, Community Resilience should be required reading for students, practitioners, community organizers, and policy makers. * David Vlahov, PhD, RN, Professor of Nursing, Yale School of Nursing *
This book makes vivid and concrete the ways that mindsets are social determinants of health. The stories we tell ourselves about who deserves to be healthy and what we owe each other: these narratives drive health policy and health outcomes. Community Resilience is a valuable field guide to the culture part of the Culture of Health. * Martin Kaplan, Director, Norman Lear Center for the Study of Entertainment, Media and Society, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism *
In this volume, you will find powerful examples of ways that individuals and communities across the country are working to improve conditions of life, especially for people and places that have been left behind. * Laudan Aron, Urban Institute *
This timely volume points to strategies for strengthening the resilience of communities to overcome inter-related threats from racism and poverty to the coronavirus pandemic, and will serve as a valuable resource for researchers, advocates, and policy makers. * Nancy Adler, Center for Health and Community, University of California San Francisco *



Book Information
ISBN 9780197559383
Author Alonzo L. Plough
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 658g
Dimensions(mm) 155mm * 234mm * 23mm