The
Greater Brooklyn Health Coalition
(GBHC) is proud to share some important
projects with you.
Brooklyn Health Smarts
GBHC is working with the United Way
of NYC and the Adult Literacy Media
Alliance to build the capacity of
Community-Based Organizations (CBO)
to provide health literacy education
for their patrons.
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for more detail
Walk Our Children
To promote better health through physical
activity, GBHC helps school communities organize efforts to identify and address local safety concerns preventing children from walking and playing outside.
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for more detail
Click here to view our Walk Our Children success stories - 2007 and 2008.
Heart
Disease and Stroke Prevention (CVD)
GBHC
trains community health workers to be advocates for health promotion in cardiovascular disease.
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for more detail
Click here for briefings from our CVD community forums - 2007 and 2008.
Click here to view one of our CVD
success stories (pdf).
Click here for a Journal of Community Health article on our CVD program.
Maternal
and Child Health
The Greater Brooklyn Health
Coalition conducts outreach, screening, and health education to improve maternal and child
health and reduce Brooklyn's high infant
mortality rate.
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for more detail
H.I.T.E.
Health Information Tool for Empowerment. Beginning in 2004, GBHC partnered with
the Greater New York Hospital Foundation to create the Health Information Tool
for Empowerment, more commonly referred to as H.I.T.E.
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Lead
Poisoning Prevention
The Greater Brooklyn Health Coalition has joined with the New York
City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
to
“put the lid on lead” in Brooklyn.
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for more detail
Stay Tuned for more
Projects!
If you have questions
or would like more information on
the Greater Brooklyn Health
Coalition, please contact us at 718-462-8654. |
