National Civic Review articles from December 1998

National Civic Review archives from December 1998

A dialogue on healthy communities: past, present, and future.(Building Healthier Communities: Ten Years of Learning)(Panel Discussion)
December 22, 1998... Editor's note: In 1984, a conference on healthy public policy was held in Toronto. The conference was organized by Trevor Hancock, who was then working in the city of Toronto's department of public health. During the conference, Leonard Duhl, a...

A toolkit for building a healthy city.(Building Healthier Communities: Ten Years of Learning)
December 22, 1998... You want to change your city, the community where you live. You want to build a healthy Hadleyburg or Gotham or Megalopolis. What do you need? Before you go charging off against that windmill, do you have your lance? Your sword? Your...

Smoke-free California: democracy meets public health.(Building Healthier Communities: Ten Years of Learning)(reprinted from Voices from America: Ten Healthy Communities Stories from Around the Nation, 1998)
December 22, 1998... Lodi, California, might be considered an unlikely place for a revolution to begin. As a predominantly agricultural town on the eastern edge of the fertile Central Valley, it is even less likely to be the birthplace for a revolution placing...

Social capital and community building.(Building Healthier Communities: Ten Years of Learning)(part 2)
December 22, 1998... Over the past few years, social capital has become a public idea in good currency, shaping policy discussions and program formulation and evaluation. Despite, or perhaps because of, its growing application, the idea has not achieved precise...

Doing democracy: an exploration of Progressive-Era reform and its legacy for American politics.(Building Healthier Communities: Ten Years of Learning)
December 22, 1998... American history is marked by a long, steady tradition of social and political reform. Indeed, the American "character" seems defined, in part, by a tendency toward discontent with social and political predicaments mixed with a pragmatic search...

An overview of citizen participation in health planning: lessons learned from the literature.(Building Healthier Communities: Ten Years of Learning)
December 22, 1998... Ever since the mid-1960s, Americans have been concerned with involving citizens in a variety of planning processes, from health systems to social systems to political systems. Citizen participation, however, has ebbed and flowed in political...