Publications

  • Perez, LM, "Opportunities to improve health for African-American men and their communities inside and outside of the correctional system" (book chapter), forthcoming, 2010.
  • Martinez, J., Frye, L. and Perez, LM, "Community health workers in the Black community: Building trust, alleviating pain, and improving health access," Health Issues in the Black Community, 3rd edition, forthcoming, 2009.
  • Perez, LM, Ro, MJ, and Treadwell, HM. "Vulnerable Populations, Prison, Federal and State Medicaid Policies:Avoiding the Loss of a Right to Care," Journal of Correctional Healthcare, Vol. 15, Issue 2, April, 2009.
  • Perez, LM and Treadwell, HM. "Determining What We Stand For Will Guide What We Do:On Community Priorities, Ethnical Research Paradigms, and Human Experimentation in Prisons," American Journal of Public Health, February, 2009.
  • Perez, Leda M. and Henrie M. Treadwell, "Homeward bound and homeless: The challenge of those returning home after incarceration," Housing: Socioeconomic, Availability and Development Issues, ISBN978-1-60692-371-9, Edward P. Hammond and Alex D. Noyes (Eds.), Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2009.
  • Perez, LM and Martinez, J., "Community Health Workers: Social Justice and Policy Advocates for Community Health and Well-Being," American Journal of Public Health, January, 2008.
  • Pérez, L.M., Treadwell, H.M., Young, A.M.W., Williams, N., "A Call to Action from the Grassroots:Men on What a Nation Must Do to Reverse a Legacy of Separation and Segregation American Journal of Health Services, December, 2007.
  • Young, A.M.W., Pérez, L.M., Northridge, M., Vaughn, R.L., Braithwaite, K., Treadwell, H.M." Bringing to Light the Health Needs of African American Men: The Overtown Men's Health Study," Journal of Men's Health and Gender, 2007.
  • Whitley, E., Jarrett, N.C., Young, A.M.W, Adeyemi, S., and Pérez, L.M. "Building Effective Programs to Improve Men's Health," American Journal of Men's Health, Volume 1, No. 4 December 2007. 294-306.
  • Pérez, L.M. "Accessible, Community-Based Care for Men in Distressed Communities," American Journal of Public Health, April 2006, Vol. 96, No.4, p. 588.
  • Pérez, L.M. with Barri Burrus, Mary Northridge,et al. "What It Takes to Deliver Culturally-Competent And Effective Smoking Cessation Services to Underserved Communities: Perspectives from Program Staff on the `Front Lines' of Tobacco Control," Journal of Healthcare for the Poor and Underserved, 2006.
  • Ro, M., Treadwell, H.M., Northridge, M.E. (eds), Pérez, L.M. et al (contributors) Community Health Workers and Community Voices: Promoting Good Health, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, October 2003
 

Learn More

Read the full Healthcare Reform Study.

Read a policy brief on Making the case for community health workers.

Read a policy brief on Healthcare Reform in Florida.

Watch a webinar on federal health reform law which helps explain the impacts on Florida.

View a Powerpoint presentation on healthcare reform in Florida.

View a Powerpoint presentation on the future of Community Health Workers.

Telling our stories in print:

  • "Community Voices: Health Matters," Henrie M. Treadwell, Marguerite J. Ro, and Leda M. Perez, (eds.), January, 2011.
  • "Criminal Justice and Other Public Policies as Determinants of Health and Well Being for African American Men," book chapter forthcoming, 2011, Leda M. Perez.
  • "Talking Health Equity" blog

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