Toward equity in health: a new global approach to health disparities
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Körperschaft: Health Disparities Conference < 2006, Columbia University> (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Springer ©2008
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Beschreibung:Papers from the first annual Health Disparities Conference, held March 2006 at Columbia University and organized by the Research Group on Disparities in Health of Teachers College, Columbia University
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: the forces driving and embodied within a new field of equity in health -- Challenges in eliminating health disparities -- Toward evidence-based and culturally appropriate models for reducing global health disparities: an Africanist perspective -- New paradigms for inclusive health care: toward individual patient and population health -- What types of public health proposals should agencies be funding and what types of evidence should matter?: scientific and ethical considerations -- Income-related health disparity and its determinants in New York State: racial/ethnic and geographical comparisons -- Perspectives on mechanisms of racial disparities in hypertension -- Incessant displacement and health disparities -- Strategies for reducing disparities in African Americans' receipt and use of mental health services -- Genetics or social forces? racial disparities in infant mortality -- A psychosocial model of resilience theory and research: a recommended paradigm for studying African Americans' beliefs and practices toward colon cancer screening -- Eliminating disparities in health and disease outcomes: a call for interdisciplinary collaboration -- Grant-writing for community-based health disparities research and services: the role of academic/community partnerships -- Addressing cardiovascular health disparities of Chinese immigrants in New York City: a case of the Chinese-American healthy heart coalition -- HIV/AIDS risk reduction with couples: implications for reducing health disparities in HIV/AIDS prevention -- Using new media to improve learning: multimedia connect for HIV/AIDS risk reduction and the triangle initiative
A role for health informatics and information techonolgy (HIIT): shaping a global research agenda to eliminate health disparities -- An online multimedia peer education smoking cessation program for Korean youth: a film script contest for stories on quitting smoking -- Training community health workers and peer educators for HIV/AIDS prevention in Africa: integrating African healing wisdom and evidence-based behavior change strategies -- The social education and health advocacy training (SEHAT) project: training peer educators in Indian prisons to increase health awareness and preventive behavior for HIV -- Training peer educators, black MSM leadership, and partners for ethnographic community-based participatory research -- Recommendations for researchers and clinicans working at the intersection of the HIV/AIDS and methamphetamine epidemics with MSM -- Lesbian and bisexual women of color, racism, heterosexism, homophobia, and health: a recommended intervention and research agenda -- Ethnic/racial disparities in gray-related stress and health among lesbian, gay, and bisexual youths: examining a prevalent hypothesis -- Health disparities and people with disabilities -- Classroom-based interventions to reduce academic disparities between low-income and high-income students -- Cultivating academic ability through exposure to supplementary education -- A supplementary education model rooted in an academic, community, and faith-based coalition: closing the education and health gaps -- So no child is left behind: a peer mentoring/tutoring program for at-risk urban youth attending a college preparatory high school -- A model for comprehensive community-wide asthma education using partnerships and the public school curriculum -- Conclusion: the future of the field of equity in health
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 562 pages)
ISBN:0826103685
9780826103680

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