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Title:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Jossey-Bass,

Copyright Date:

c1992

Description:

xxix, 371 p. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Afro-Americans--Health and hygiene.
Blacks--United States.
Health promotion--United States.
Health Status
Social problems--United States.

Other Authors:

Braithwaite, Ronald L., 1945-
Taylor, Sandra E., 1955-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

(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.
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.

Series:

The Jossey-Bass health series

ISBN:

9781555424770 (alk. paper)
1555424775 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)25967214

LCCN:

92020174

Locations:

O4AX446 -- Chadwick Library

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

W7AX771 -- Urban Campus (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)