Peanuts: A Charlie Brown Christmas by Charles M Schulz

Peanuts: A Charlie Brown Christmas by Charles M Schulz

Out in the Rural is the unlikely story of the Tufts-Delta Health Center, which in 1966 opened in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, to become the first rural community health center in the United States. Its goal was simple: to provide health care and outreach to the region's thousands of rural poor, most of them black sharecroppers who had lived without any medical resources for generations.

In Out in the Rural, historian Thomas J. Ward explores the health center's story alongside the remarkable life of its founder, Dr. H. Jack Geiger. A former teenage runaway, through a serendipitous turn of events he was befriended and taken in by the actor and Harlem Renaissance icon Canada Lee. Lee would later loan Geiger money for college, and after stints as a journalist and Merchant Marine, Geiger attended medical school and became a physician.

Geiger's personal history brings a profound human element to what was accomplished deep in the Mississippi Delta. In addition to providing medical care, the staff of the Tufts-Delta Health Center worked upstream to address the fundamental determinants of health-factors such as education, poverty, nutrition, and the environment-and ask the question, What does it take to stay healthy?

Equal parts social history and personal history, Out in the Rural is a story of both community health and of a stranger's kindness and determination to bring health care to areas out of reach.

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ISBN 13	9780762458721
ISBN 10	0762458720
Title	Peanuts: A Charlie Brown Christmas
Author	Charles M Schulz
Condition	Unavailable
Publisher	Running Press
Year published	2015-09-22
Number of pages	48
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.