Health Disparities: Epidemiology, Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Risk Factors and Strategies for Elimination (Public Health in the 21st Century) - Hardcover

 
9781626185708: Health Disparities: Epidemiology, Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Risk Factors and Strategies for Elimination (Public Health in the 21st Century)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1626185700 ISBN 13: 9781626185708
Publisher: Nova Science Pub Inc, 2013

Synopsis

In this book, the authors present topical research in the study of the racial/ethnic and socio-economic risk factors and strategies for the elimination of health disparities. Topics discussed include the cessation and prevention of tobacco use for indigenous populations; understanding the true burden of cancer in American Indian and Alaska Native communities; understanding cardiovascular disparities between Maori and non-Maori indigenous populations in New Zealand; reducing health disparities of culturally-diverse minority populations through transcultural nursing in the home; childhood trauma and health disparities; dismantling racism to improve health equity; the impact of language barriers on healthcare utilisation among Hispanic construction workers; and white and minority screenings in colorectal cancer prevention.

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Publisher
Nova Science Pub Inc
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1626185700
ISBN 13 
9781626185708
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
198
Editor
Jackson Owen T., Evans Kathleen A.