Greenwood Publishing Group : Praeger Handbook of Black American Health [Two Volumes]

Praeger Handbook of Black American Health [Two Volumes]
Policies and Issues Behind Disparities in Health 2nd Edition
Ivor Lensworth Livingston, ed.

0-313-32477-8/978-0-313-32477-2

Description

More than 100 contributors from across the United States, all recognized experts in their fields, present information on the vast racial and ethnic health disparities, as well as approaches that can be used to reduce or eliminate these disparities. Chapters address topics from heart health, hypertension, diabetes, asthma and lung disease, and HIV/AIDS to alcohol and drug abuse, infant mortality, nutrition and exercise. Presents state-of-the-art information in a manner free of confusing jargon, making this accessible to a casual user, yet still helpful to students, scholars, and researchers. Chapters also address disparities in reproductive health, life expectancy and access to health care. Chapter authors include professionals and professors with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Pennsylvania State University.This expansion of Dr. Livingston's first edition of the handbook includes a doubling of the text, with 20 new chapters and complete updates revising the 27 returning chapters. These volumes will be of special interest to those in fields including public health, medicine, health psychology, health policy, and medical sociology.

About the Author

IVOR LENSWORTH LIVINGSTON is a tenured, graduate Professor of Medical Sociology and Social Epidemiology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Adjunct Professor for the Department of Community Health and Family Practice of the School of Medicine at Howard University. He holds a Ph.D in Medical Sociology from Howard University, a Masters of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health, and a Post Doctoral Certificate in Cardiovascular Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health (now called the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health).

List Price: $165.00 Pages: 980 Publication: 6/30/2004

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