Toward Equity in Health

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ISBN: 9780826103130 | 0826103138
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/1/2007

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This essential collection presents a state-of-the-art framework for how workers in public health and related disciplines should conceptualize health disparities and how they should be addressed worldwide. The contributors, who are leading public health professionals, educators, and practitioners in complementary fields, advance new evidence-based models designed to mobilize and educate the next generation of researchers and practitioners.

Contributors	p. xi
Preface	p. xvii
Acknowledgments	p. xxiii
Introduction: The Forces Driving and Embodied Within a New Field of Equity in Health	p. 1
New Theory, Paradigms, and Perspectives
Challenges in Eliminating Health Disparities	p. 41
Toward Evidence-Based and Culturally Appropriate Models for Reducing Global Health Disparities: An Africanist Perspective	p. 47
New Paradigms for Inclusive Health Care: Toward Individual Patient and Population Health	p. 61
New Procedures and Policies-Implications for Funders, Researchers, and Policy Makers
What Types of Public Health Proposals Should Agencies Be Funding and What Types of Evidence Should Matter?: Scientific and Ethical Considerations	p. 81
Income-Related Health Disparity and Its Determinants in New York State: Racial/Ethnic and Geographical Comparisons	p. 97
Perspectives on Mechanisms of Racial Disparities in Hypertension	p. 129
Incessant Displacement and Health Disparities	p. 141
The Legacy and Role of Racism-Implications and Recommendations for Research and Practice
Strategies for Reducing Disparities in African Americans' Receipt and Use of Mental Health Services	p. 155
Genetics or Social Forces? Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality	p. 169
A Psychosocial Model of Resilience Theory and Research: A Recommended Paradigm for Studying African Americans' Beliefs and Practices Toward Colon Cancer Screening	p. 183
Collaborations, Partnerships, and Community-Based Participatory Research
Eliminating Disparities in Health and Disease Outcomes: A Call for Interdisciplinary Collaboration	p. 197
Grant-Writing for Community-Based Health Disparities Research and Services: The Role of Academic/Community Partnerships	p. 215
Addressing Cardiovascular Health Disparities of Chinese Immigrants in New York City: A Case Study of the Chinese-American Healthy Heart Coalition	p. 237
HIV/AIDS Risk Reduction With Couples: Implications for Reducing Health Disparities in HIV/AIDS Prevention	p. 253
New Internet Technology-Achieving Wide Dissemination and Global Reach
Using New Media to Improve Learning: Multimedia Connect for HIV/AIDS Risk Reduction and the Triangle Initiative	p. 277
A Role for Health Informatics and Information Technology (HIIT): Shaping a Global Research Agenda to Eliminate Health Disparities	p. 297
An Online Multimedia Peer Education Smoking Cessation Program for Korean Youth: A Film Script Contest for Stories on Quitting Smoking	p. 323
Training Community Health Workers and Peer Educators
Training Community Health Workers and Peer Educators for HIV/AIDS Prevention in Africa: Integrating African Healing Wisdom and Evidence-Based Behavior Change Strategies	p. 341
The Social Education and Health Advocacy Training (SEHAT) Project: Training Peer Educators in Indian Prisons to Increase Health Awareness and Preventive Behavior for HIV	p. 363
Training Peer Educators, Black MSM Leadership, and Partners for Ethnographic Community-Based Participatory Research	p. 379
Closing Gaps in Health for Special Populations
Recommendations for Researchers and Clinicians Working at the Intersection of the HIV/AIDS and Methamphetamine Epidemics With MSM	p. 393
Lesbian and Bisexual Women of Color, Racism, Heterosexism, Homophobia, and Health: A Recommended Intervention and Research Agenda	p. 413
Ethnic/Racial Disparities in Gay-Related Stress and Health Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youths: Examining a Prevalent Hypothesis	p. 427
Health Disparities and People With Disabilities	p. 447
Closing the Education and Health Gaps-Addressing Dual Inter-Related Disparities Through Effective Engagement
Classroom-Based Interventions to Reduce Academic Disparities Between Low-Income and High-Income Students	p. 463
Cultivating Academic Ability Through Exposure to Supplementary Education	p. 481
A Supplementary Education Model Rooted in an Academic, Community, and Faith-Based Coalition: Closing the Education and Health Gaps	p. 491
So No Child Is Left Behind: A Peer Mentoring/Tutoring Program for At-Risk Urban Youth Attending a College Preparatory High School	p. 507
A Model for Comprehensive Community-Wide Asthma Education Using Partnerships and the Public School Curriculum	p. 529
Conclusion: The Future of the Field of Equity in Health	p. 547
Index	p. 553
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