Toward Equity in Health by Barbara C. WallaceCall Number: RA418 .H3894 2008
ISBN: 0826103138
Publication Date: 2007-11-01
1. Introduction: The Forces Driving and Embodied Within a New Field of Equity in Healthy
Part 1: New Theory, Paradigms, and Perspectives. --2. Challenges in Eliminating Health Disparities -- 3. Toward Evidence-Based and Culturally Appropriate Models for Reducing Global Health Disparities: An Africanist Perspective -- 4. New Paradigms for Inclusive Health Care: Toward Individual Patient and Population Health.
Part 2: New Procedures and Policies - Implications for Funders, Researchers, and Policy Makers. -- 5. What Types of Public Health Proposals Should Agencies Be Funding and What Types of Evidence Should Matter?: Scientific and Ethical Considerations -- 6. Income-Related Health Disparity and its Determinants in New York State: Racial/Ethnic and Geographic Comparisons -- 7. Perspectives on Mechanisms of Racial Disparities in Hypertension -- 8. Incessant Displacement and Health Disparities
Part 3: The Legacy and Role of Racism - Implications and Recommendations for Research and Practice -- 9. Strategies for Reducing Disparities in African Americans' Receipt and Use of Mental Health Services -- 10. Genetics or Social Forces? Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality -- 11. A Psychosocial Model of Resilience Theory and Research: A Recommended Paradigm for Studying African Americans' Beliefs and Practices Toward Colon Cancer Screening
Part 4: Collaborations, Partnerships, and Community-Based Participatory Research -- 12. Eliminating Disparities in Health and Disease Outcomes: A Call for Interdisciplinary Collaboration -- 13. Grant-Writing for Community-Based Health Disparities Research and Services: The Role Academic/Community Partnerships -- 14. Addressing Cardiovascular Health Disparities of Chinese Immigrants in New York City: A Case Study of the Chinese-American Healthy Heart Coalition -- 15. HIV/AIDS Risk Reduction With Couples: Implications For Reducing Health Disparities in HIV/AIDS Prevention
Part 5: New Internet Technology - Achieving Wide Dissemination and Global Research -- 16. Using New Media to Improve Learning: Multimedia Connect for HIV/AIDS Risk Reduction and the Triangle Initiative -- 17. A Role for Health Informatics and Information Technology (HIIT): Shaping a Global Research Agenda to Eliminate Health Disparities -- 18. An Online Multimedia Peer Education Smoking Cessation Program for Korean Youth: A Film Script Contest for Stories on Quitting Smoking
Part 6: Training Community Health Workers and Peer Educators -- 19. Training Community Health Workers and Peer Educators for HIV/AIDS Prevention in Africa: Integrating African Healing Wisdom and Evidence-Based Behavior Change Strategies -- 20. The Social Education and Health Advocacy Training (SEHAT) Project: Training Peer Educators in Indian Prisons to Increase Health Awareness and Preventive Behavior for HIV -- 21. Training Peer Educators, Black MSM Leadership, and Partners for Ethnographic Community-Based Participatory Research
Part 7: Closing Gaps in Health for Special Populations -- 22. Recommendations for Researchers and Clinicians Working at the Intersection of the HIV/AIDS and Methamphetamine Epidemics With MSM -- 23. Lesbian and Bisexual Women of Color, Racism, Heterosexism, Homophobia, and Health: A Recommended Intervention and Research Agenda -- 24. Ethnic/Racial Disparities in Gay-Related Stress and Health Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth: Examining a Prevalent Hypothesis -- 25. Health Disparities and People With Disabilities
Part 8: Closing the Education and Health Gaps: Addressing Dual Inter-Related Disparities Through Effective Engagement -- 26. Classroom-Based Interventions to Reduce Academic Disparities Between Low-Income and High-Income Students -- 27. Cultivating Academic Ability Through Exposure to Supplementary Education -- 28. A Supplementary Education Model Rooted in an Academic, Community, and Faith-Based Coalition: Closing the Education and Health Gaps -- 29. So No Child Is Left Behind: A Peer Mentoring/Tutoring Program for At-Risk Urban Youth Attending a College Preparatory High School -- 30. A Model for Comprehensive Community-Wide Asthma Education Using Partnerships and the Public School Curriculum -- 31. Conclusion: The Future of the Field of Equity in Health