(eBook PDF) Essentials of Health, Culture, and Diversity: Understanding People, Reducing Disparities

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0763780456
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0763780456
• Author: Mark Edberg 

The term culture has increasingly been used in the discourse of public health, for example, with respect to issues of health disparities in the U.S., the development and implementation of ‘culturally competent’ or ‘culturally appropriate’ programs, and in many other ways. What exactly is culture, however? Published in partnership with the American Public Health Association, this newest offering in the Essential Public Health series examines what is meant by culture, the ways in which culture intersects with health issues, how public health efforts can benefit by understanding and working with cultural processes, and a brief selection of conceptual tools and research methods that are useful in identifying relationships between culture and health. Essentials of Health, Culture, and Diversity includes practical guidelines for incorporating cultural understanding in public health settings, and examples of programs where that has occurred. Looking for more real-life evidence? Check out Cases 3, 5-11, 13, 18, & 20 in Essential Case Studies in Public Health, Putting Public Health into Practice./

table of contents:

1. Chapter 1 There is Health, and There is Health…
2. Chapter 2 The Starting Point: Defining Culture, Defining Health
3. Chapter 3 Ethnomedicine I: Cultureal Health Systems of Related Knowledge and Practice
4. Chapter 4 Ethnomedicine II: Cultural Systems of Psychology and Mental/Emotional Health
5. Chapter 5 The Moral Dimension: The Relationship of Etiology to Morality in Cultural Beliefs and Practice
6. Chapter 6 Culture, Healers, and the Institutions of Health
7. Chapter 7 Sociocultural Ecologies of Disease and Illness
8. Chapter 8 Culture, Subculture, and Constructions of Health Risk
9. Chapter 9 The Dimensions of Culture in a Sampling of Current Public Health Challenges
10. Chapter 10 A Primer on Research Strategies to Obtain Cultural Information
11. Chapter 11 Incorporating Cultural Knowledge in Health Promotion Interventions, with Selected Example
12. Chapter 12 Wrapping Up: Being Culturally Competent

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