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Poverty and Place
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Cancer Prevention among Low-Income Women of Color
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Artikel-Nr:
9781498522007
Veröffentl:
2018
Seiten:
192
Autor:
Anjanette Wells
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This book examines ways in which cancer health disparities exist due to class and context inequalities. The volume demonstrates that poverty is a health issue because it erodes the social, political, and economic support systems that enhance well-being and healthy lifestyles necessary for human development and human betterment.
This book examines ways in which cancer health disparities exist due to class and context inequities even in the most advanced society of the world. This volume, while articulating health disparities in the St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan area, including East St. Louis, Illinois, seeks to move beyond deficit models to focus on health equity. As cancer disparities continue to persist for low-income and women of color, the promotion and attainment of health equity becomes a matter of paramount importance. The volume demonstrates the importance of place and the historical inequity in socio-environmental settings that have contributed to marked health disparities. Through original research, this volume demonstrates that addressing the causes and contributors to women’s health disparities is a complex process that requires intervention from a socio-ecological framework, at micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of influence. The book highlights critical aspects of a practical multidimensional model of community engagement with important influences of the various levels of research, policy and practice. More pointedly, the authors support a new model of community engagement that focuses on individuals in their broader ecological context. In so doing, they seek to advance the art and science of community engagement and collaboration, while disavowing the ‘parachute’ model of research, policy and practice that reinforces and sustains the problems associated with the status quo. The book concludes with broader national policy considerations in the face of the erosion of the social safety net for America’s citizenry.
Foreword by Holden Thorp
Introduction: Cancer in the Face of Race, Poverty, and Place: An Introduction
Chapter 1: Social Determinants of Health and Their Influence on Health Disparities in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area
Chapter 2: Cancer Disparities by Site
Chapter 3: Health Behaviors, Lifestyles, and Prevention
Chapter 4: From Theories to Practice, into Feasible Solutions
Conclusion: Poverty and Public Health