Format:
Online-Ressource (xi, 279 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
1616684208
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9781616684204
Series Statement:
Public Health in the 21st Century
Content:
Intro -- BLACK WOMEN'S HEALTH: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES -- BLACK WOMEN'S HEALTH: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INEQUITIES IN HEALTH CARE AND AFRICAN- AMERICAN WOMEN: INTERSECTIONAL APPLICATIONS OF RESEARCH AND POLICY -- ABSTRACT -- PART I. STUDY BACKGROUND -- PART II. THE CONTEXT OF BLACK WOMEN'S LIVES -- PART III. HEALTH STATUS, ACCESS AND QUALITY OF CARE FOR BLACK WOMEN -- PART IV. FRAMING SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND HEALTH CARE DISPARITIES -- PART V. DEFINING AND DECONSTRUCTING INTERSECTIONALITY -- Part VI. Intersectionality and Research -- APPLICATIONS OF THE USE OF STORY-TELLING IN HEALTH CARE INEQUITIES POLICY -- CONCLUSION -- SELECTED REFERENCES -- GENETICS AND THE HEALTH OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN: FINDING THE CURE FOR DISEASE AND THE CURE FOR SOCIAL ILLS -- ABSTRACT -- A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF GENETICS -- THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND LEGACY OF THE EUGENICS MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES -- PUBLIC HEALTH POLICES AND MISGUIDED BENEFICENCE - THE CASE OF SICKLE CELL DISEASE -- ATTITUDES AND KNOWLEDGE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE HEALTH OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN -- AUTHOR'S NOTE -- REFERENCES -- ISSUES AFFECTING HEALTH CARE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- PREVALENCE OF DISABILITY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN -- DEFINITION OF DISABILITY -- HEALTH DISPARITIES -- SOCIAL AND CULTURAL FACTORS AFFECTING HEALTH CARE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES -- STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE HEALTH CARE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- WHEN I COME TO THE END OF MY JOURNEY: CORRELATES OF MORALE IN THE ELDERLY AFRICAN-AMERICAN FEMALE -- ABSTRACT -- BACKGROUND -- THEORIES ON SUCCESSFUL AGING -- MORALE, LIFE SATISFACTION AND SUCCESSFUL AGING -- RESILIENCE, COPING AND MORALE -- THE LIVES OF OLDER AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN -- THE ROLE OF RELIGION.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Inequities in health care and African-American women : intersectional applications of research and policy / Laurie Nsiah-JeffersonGenetics and the health of African American women : finding the cure for disease and the cure for social ills / Deborah Cohen -- Issues affecting health care of African American women with disabilities / Suzanne C. Smeltzer -- When I come to the end of my journey : correlates of morale in the elderly African-American female / Gloria Boseman -- Improving the health of African American women / Maisha Amen and Basirah Taha -- Perceptions of personal health of contemporary black women / Minnie Campbell -- Postpartum depression and African-American women : the cultural context / Valera A. Hascup -- Black women, stress and pregnancy / Yvonne Wesley -- Older adults : quality of life issues derived from late onset blindness / Estelle A. Pisani -- Relationships among pet attachment support and human health outcomes in women of color / Cheryl A. Krause-Parello.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1608764532
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781608764532
Additional Edition:
Print version Black women's health
Language:
English
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