ISBN:
9780805898552
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (233 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Black Women''s Health : A Special Double Issue of women''s Health: Research on Gender, Behavior, and Policy
DDC:
305.48896073
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
In this special issue, top researchers from a diversity of disciplines provide an overview of and insights into the major social, cultural, and structural variables that play a role in Black women''s poor health, and differential morbidity and mortality. The articles focus on the major threats to Black women''s health such as diabetes, obesity, cancer, violence, and AIDS, and utilize a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods from medicine, psychology, sociology, and feminist analysis. Among the articles are: * An examination of the role of Black women''s cultural and ethnomedical be
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: The State of Research on Black Women in Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine; Cultural Barriers to Cancer Screening Among African American Women: A Critical Review of the Qualitative Literature; Cancer Screening Behaviors of Low-Income Women: The Impact of Race; Importance of Psychological Variables in Understanding Risk Perceptions and Breast Cancer Screening of African American Women; Obesity Among African American Women: Prevalence, Consequences, Causes, and Developing Research; Diabetes in African American Women: The Silent Epidemic
Description / Table of Contents:
Health-Care-Related Attitudes and Utilization Among African American WomenIntimate Violence and Black Women's Health; HIV Risk Behaviors Among Inner-City African American Women; Conclusions: The Future of Research on Black Women's Health; Author Index; Subject Index; Editorial Acknowledgment of Ad Hoc Reviewers
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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