Health Equity : A Primer / Daniel Dawes, Kisha Holden, and David Williams -- The Role of Trauma as a Sociocultural Determinant of Health for African Americans / Teri E. Lassiter, Linda Alexander, Nazsa Baker, and Brittany Smith -- Decreasing Stigma About Mental Health Challenges / Kisha B. Holden, Gilberte Bastien, Chris Villongco, and Chidi Wamuo -- Advancing Mental Health Equity for African Americans Through a Focus on Housing Choice / Brian D. Smedley -- Improving Black Student School Mental Health Service Access and Utilization / Carrie Woodard, Susan Tarasevich, and Carl I. Fertman -- Combating Negative Stereotypes and Images : The Public Health Risks of Black Super-/Sub Humanity Myths and Other Troubling Tropes / April M. W. Young -- Centering Community Health Workers to Advance Health Equity : What Morehouse School of Medicine Has Known Since the Beginning / Tabia Henry Akintobi, Arletha W. Livingston, Katherine Gower, Somilez Francis, Shawn Trimble, Dubem Okoye, and Kendra Piper -- A Historical Perspective of Structural Racism in the Behavioral Health System / Julie Radlauer-Doerfler, and Alicia Best -- Centering African Americans in Evaluation : Actionable Metrics to Evaluate Racial Equity in Public Health and Clinical Programs / Jennifer J. Edwards -- Picked to Pieces : Listening to Women Faculty of Color in Higher Education / Marjorie C. Feinson, Michele H. Ozumba, and Janet Holmgren -- Strengthening Community Health / Sandra C. Melvin -- Understanding and Applying the Political Determinants of Health / Daniel Dawes, Christian Amador, Toynka L. McKinney -- Civic Engagement as a Path to Health Equity : Improving the Health of Black Americans Through Voting / Dawn Hunter, Aliya Bhatia, and Carlton Lawrence -- Public Safety : An Essential Contributor to Public Health and Health Equity / Tralonda Triplett -- Recruiting Participants and Sustaining Partnerships through Institutional Change Research : Methods and Lessons from the Accountability for Cancer Care Through Undoing Racism and Equity (ACCURE) Study / Christina Yongue, Nora S. Jones, Jennifer Schaal, Ida Griesemer, Kristin Z. Black, and Samuel Cykert -- Adverse Childhood Experiences : Race Matters / Khadijia TribieĢ Reid -- Why Making Racism Obsolete Must Be an Essential Public Health Function / Gail Christopher.
Summary:
"This book aims to advance health equity by providing a critical examination of selected factors that create, perpetuate, and exacerbate imbalances concerning unique experiences of African Americans in the United States"--Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.