Inviting Everyone: Healing Healthcare Through Positive Deviance

by Arvind Singhal, Prucia Buscell, Curt Lindberg

Book Overview

Positive Deviance (PD) is an approach to social change that enables communities and organizations to discover the wisdom they already have, and then to act on it. The premise of PD is that in every community there are certain individuals or groups whose uncommon practices or strategies enable them to find better solutions to problems than neighbors and peers who have access to the same resources. PD is led by people in the community who help identify...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1453731644
• ISBN13: 9781453731642
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"