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This chapter addresses the broad question of what is a community-based organization. Here John W. Murphy explains how the focus of community-based work is local knowledge and community control of health projects. To deliver services in accordance with these principles, community-based organizations must be instituted. What these organizations require, separate from the past, is a different management style and unique division of labor. Most organizations that are employed to provide health services in a community-based manner, however, have a traditional structure and thus have difficulty fulfilling their aims. A new organization must be created that is consistent with the philosophy that underpins community-based work. Such an organization, for example, would be less hierarchical and not focused on a specific division of labor as in the past.
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Murphy, J.W. (2019). A Community-Based Organization. In: Arxer, S., Murphy, J. (eds) Community-Based Health Interventions in an Institutional Context. International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, and Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24654-9_2
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