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• Title:Health issues in the black community / [edited by] Ronald L. Braithwaite, Sandra E. Taylor, and Henrie M. Treadwell.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Braithwaite, Ronald L., 1945-
  Taylor, Sandra E., 1955-
  Treadwell, Henrie M.
  American Public Health Association.
  
• Published/Created:[Washington, DC] : APHA Press ; San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, ©2009.
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WA300.AA1 H4346 2009
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:African Americans--Health and hygiene.
  
• Medical Subjects: African Americans--United States.
  Health Status--United States.
  Health Promotion--United States.
  Social Problems--United States.
  
• Edition:3rd ed.
  
• Description:xxxvi, 620 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780470436790 (cloth)
  0470436794 (cloth)
  
• Contents:1. African American Health: An Overview
  2. "Without Health and Long Life All Else Fails": A History of African Americans and the Elimination of Racial Disparities in Health Care
  3. Health Status of Children and Adolescents
  4. Health Status of Black Women
  5. Health Status of Black Men
  6. Health and Black Older Adults: Insights from a Life-Course Perspective
  7. Stigmaand Mental Health in African Americans
  8. Homicide and Violence Among African American Youth: From Epidemic to Endemic?
  9. Narrowing the Gap Between Supply and Demand Oforgans for Transplantation: Current Issues for African Americans
  10. African Americans on the Front Line of Environmental Assault
  11. Impact of Incarceration on the Health of African Americans
  12. Hypertension in African American Communities
  13. General Overview of Cancer in the United States: Incidence and Mortality Burden Among African Americans
  14. Health Disparities: The Case for Diabetes
  15. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
  16. Oral Health
  17. Substance Use Disorders in the African American Community
  18. Hiv/Aids in the Black Community
  19. Tobacco Use and the Black Community in the United States: A Community-Focused Public Health Model for Eliminating Population Disparities
  20. Alcohol Use and Consequences for Blacks
  21. Nutrition and Obesity Issues for African Americans
  22. Physical Activity
  23. Chiropractic Medicine: Integral to Integrative Medicine
  24. Role of Black Faith Communities in Fostering Health
  25. Community Health Workers in the Black Community: Building Trust/ Alleviating Pain/ And Improving Health Access
  26. Using Social Marketing to Lessen Health Disparities
  27. Fostering a Social Justice Approach to Health: Health Equity, Human Rights, and an Antiracism Agenda
  28. Closing the Gap: Eliminating Health Disparities.