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Health issues in the Black community / Ronald L. Braithwaite, Sandra E. Taylor, editors ; foreword by Louis W. Sullivan.

Contributor(s): Braithwaite, Ronald L, 1945- | Taylor, Sandra E, 1955-.
Material type: TextTextSeries: Jossey-Bass health series. Publisher: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c1992Edition: 1st ed.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Description: xxix, 371 p. ; 26 cm.ISBN: 1555424775 (alk. paper).Subject(s): African Americans -- Health and hygiene | Health promotion -- United StatesDDC classification: 362.1/089/96073
Contents:
African-American health: an introduction / Ronald L. Braithwaite, Sandra E. Taylor -- Demographic profile of African Americans / Christiane B. Hale -- Mental health status of Black Americans: an overview / Sandra E. Taylor -- Health status of Black women / Byllye Y. Avery -- AIDS/HIV epidemics in the Black community / Bill Jenkins --Prevention, intervention, and treatment of chemical dependency in the Black community / Donnie W. Watson -- Alcoholism and the African-American community / Creigs C. Beverly -- Heart disease, stroke, and hypertension in Blacks / Carolyn J. Hildreth, Elijah Saunders -- Cancer and Black Americans / Claudia R. Baquet, Tyson Gibbs -- Diabetes and the Black community / Frederick G. Murphy, M. Joycelyn Elders -- Homicide and violence: contemporary health problems for America's Black community / Deborah Prothrow-Stith, Howard Spivak -- Homeless women with children / Aisha Gilliam -- "Too soon, too small, too sick": Black infant mortality / Virginia Davis Floyd -- Lead poisoning: a modern plague among African-American children / Wornie L. Reed.
(cont) Sickle cell anemia and African Americans / Charles F. Whitten -- Adolescent pregnancy in the African-American community / Joyce A. Ladner, Ruby Morton Gourdine -- Elderly issues in the African-American community / Mary S. Harper -- Health education and Black health status / Rueben C. Warren -- Indigenous community health workers in the 1960s and beyond / Doris Y. Wilkinson -- Health promotion and disease prevention strategies for African Americans: a conceptual model / Collins O. Airhihenbuwa -- Effective intervention strategies for producing Black health care providers / Moses K. Woode, Kathleen Bodisch Lynch --Reproductive rights and the challenge for African Americans / Faye Wattleton -- Health policies and the Black community / Bailus Walker, Jr. -- Coalition partnerships for health promotion and empowerment / Ronald L. Braithwaite -- Health of the Black community in the twenty-first century: a futuristic perspective / Stephen B. Thomas.
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Two Weeks Davenport Library Circulating Collection Print-Circulating 362.1 H349 1992 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34284001298546

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

African-American health: an introduction / Ronald L. Braithwaite, Sandra E. Taylor -- Demographic profile of African Americans / Christiane B. Hale -- Mental health status of Black Americans: an overview / Sandra E. Taylor -- Health status of Black women / Byllye Y. Avery -- AIDS/HIV epidemics in the Black community / Bill Jenkins --Prevention, intervention, and treatment of chemical dependency in the Black community / Donnie W. Watson -- Alcoholism and the African-American community / Creigs C. Beverly -- Heart disease, stroke, and hypertension in Blacks / Carolyn J. Hildreth, Elijah Saunders -- Cancer and Black Americans / Claudia R. Baquet, Tyson Gibbs -- Diabetes and the Black community / Frederick G. Murphy, M. Joycelyn Elders -- Homicide and violence: contemporary health problems for America's Black community / Deborah Prothrow-Stith, Howard Spivak -- Homeless women with children / Aisha Gilliam -- "Too soon, too small, too sick": Black infant mortality / Virginia Davis Floyd -- Lead poisoning: a modern plague among African-American children / Wornie L. Reed.

(cont) Sickle cell anemia and African Americans / Charles F. Whitten -- Adolescent pregnancy in the African-American community / Joyce A. Ladner, Ruby Morton Gourdine -- Elderly issues in the African-American community / Mary S. Harper -- Health education and Black health status / Rueben C. Warren -- Indigenous community health workers in the 1960s and beyond / Doris Y. Wilkinson -- Health promotion and disease prevention strategies for African Americans: a conceptual model / Collins O. Airhihenbuwa -- Effective intervention strategies for producing Black health care providers / Moses K. Woode, Kathleen Bodisch Lynch --Reproductive rights and the challenge for African Americans / Faye Wattleton -- Health policies and the Black community / Bailus Walker, Jr. -- Coalition partnerships for health promotion and empowerment / Ronald L. Braithwaite -- Health of the Black community in the twenty-first century: a futuristic perspective / Stephen B. Thomas.

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