This essential text assists health care students and practitioners in delivering skilled and appropriate care to all patients, no matter their ethnicity, country of origin, cultural history, or access to services. Presenting need to know and often hard to find information on differences in access to heath-care, immunization histories, disease ...
'The text is state-of-the-art in its analysis of health disparities from both domestic and international perspectives. "Minority Populations and Health: An Introduction to Health Disparities in the United States" is a welcome addition to the field because it widens access to the complex issues underlying the health disparities problem' - ...
Some books break myths. Others break silences. A few break new ground. "The Health of Sexual Minorities" achieves all three aims. The first book of its kind, this resource offers a multidimensional picture of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) health across clinical and social disciplines to give readers a full and nuanced understanding ...
Nancy Stoller records how the poor, people of colour, gay men and lesbians, drug users, and women have built social movements to fight the impact of AIDS, revealing that organizational structure and culture, rather than public health theories or official organizational goals have greater impact on who is served and how they are served.
Many dermatologists and beauty consultants routinely prescribe remedies created for Caucasian skin without understanding how sensitive and easily damaged skin of colour is. It's no wonder, then, that many women and men of colour continually battle skin problems, and it takes a terrible toll on their self-esteem. Beautiful Skin of Colour unlocks ...
Nakamura believes that health care in America does not always respond to the needs of ethnic minority Americans. In Health in America: A Multicultural Perspective, Nakamura discusses the health issues and problems faced by African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian and Pacific Islander Americans. This book brings into focus ...
Organized topically, this supplementary text looks at health psychology from a multicultural perspective, presenting theories and research findings based and focused on understudied groups. As the field of health psychology continues to stretch and grow, it becomes increasingly more crucial to acknowledge that health factors vary between different ...
The health care system in the United States has been called the best in the world, but many of its residents cannot afford or do not have access to adequate care. "Health Disparities in the United States" explores how socioeconomic status, race, and ethnic make-up affect health disparities; what the wide gulf in care and health outcomes means for ...
In 1994, The Commonwealth Fund commissioned Louis Harris and Associates to conduct a survey of some 3,770 African American, Hispanic, Asian American, and white adults regarding their experiences with health care. Participants were asked to describe their health status and health-related behaviours, their access to and use of health-care services, ...
Most Western health professionals practice in multicultural societies. The influence of culture on illness, health and rehabilitation is therefore very important. Despite this, most lower level health psychology texts skim over these differences and assume our traditional biomedical approach will be appropriate for all. In this completely revised ...
Research on ethnicity is relevant to a wide variety of health, economic and social issues in modern societies. This is reflected in the growing body of research with a focus on ethnicity. This is the first volume to present a ready source of information on the methodological issues facing such research. Straightforward in its approach and ...
This critical new volume takes a hard look at the well-being of poor women in North America. It provides a rare opportunity to focus on one of the most pressing, but neglected social issues of our time--the injurious health consequences of impoverishment among women. A distinguished group of experts reviews the adequacy of our social and health ...
This guide encompasses in one volume various minority health issues for the four major US ethnic minority groups (Native Americans/Alaska Natives, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian/Pacific Islander Americans). Features nine quick access sections that are divided first by material format or broad subject area and then by ethnic group ...
In modern multicultural societies, the topic of 'health and ethnicity' has become increasingly recognised as highly relevant. All too frequently, academic coverage of the topic has been scattered in specialist literature of different disciplines; a book bringing these perspectives together has so far been lacking. The aim of the book is to ...
Significant concerns about the poor health and prevalence of chronic illness amongst a number of ethnic minority populations have led to heightened debates about how best to improve the situation. For some the answer is to see their experiences as part of the general social class inequality in health, but recent evidence questions the extent to ...
This critical new volume takes a hard look at the well-being of poor women in North America. It provides a rare opportunity to focus on one of the most pressing, but neglected social issues of our time--the injurious health consequences of impoverishment among women. A distinguished group of experts reviews the adequacy of our social and health ...
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