Toward Equity in Health: A New Global Approach to Health Disparities

Contents......Page 8
Contributors......Page 12
Preface......Page 18
Acknowledgments......Page 24
1 Introduction: The Forces Driving and Embodied Within a New Field of Equity in Health......Page 26
Part 1: New Theory, Paradigms, and Perspectives......Page 64
2 Challenges in Eliminating Health Disparities......Page 66
3 Toward Evidence-Based and Culturally Appropriate Models for Reducing Global Health Disparities: An Africanist Perspective......Page 72
4 New Paradigms for Inclusive Health Care: Toward Individual Patient and Population Health......Page 86
Part 2: New Procedures and Policies—Implications for Funders, Researchers, and Policy Makers......Page 104
5 What Types of Public Health Proposals Should Agencies Be Funding and What Types of Evidence Should Matter?: Scientific and Ethical Considerations......Page 106
6 Income-Related Health Disparity and Its Determinants in New York State: Racial/Ethnic and Geographical Comparisons......Page 122
7 Perspectives on Mechanisms of Racial Disparities in Hypertension......Page 154
8 Incessant Displacement and Health Disparities......Page 166
Part 3: The Legacy and Role of Racism—Implications and Recommendations for Research and Practice......Page 178
9 Strategies for Reducing Disparities in African Americans’ Receipt and Use of Mental Health Services......Page 180
10 Genetics or Social Forces? Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality......Page 194
11 A Psychosocial Model of Resilience Theory and Research: A Recommended Paradigm for Studying African Americans’ Beliefs and Practices Toward Colon Cancer Screening......Page 208
Part 4: Collaborations, Partnerships, and Community-Based Participatory Research......Page 220
12 Eliminating Disparities in Health and Disease Outcomes: A Call for Interdisciplinary Collaboration......Page 222
13 Grant-Writing for Community-Based Health Disparities Research and Services: The Role of Academic/Community Partnerships......Page 240
14 Addressing Cardiovascular Health Disparities of Chinese Immigrants in New York City: A Case Study of the Chinese-American Healthy Heart Coalition......Page 262
15 HIV/AIDS Risk Reduction With Couples: Implications for Reducing Health Disparities in HIV/AIDS Prevention......Page 278
Part 5: New Internet Technology—Achieving Wide Dissemination and Global Reach......Page 300
16 Using New Media to Improve Learning: Multimedia Connect for HIV/AIDS Risk Reduction and the Triangle Initiative......Page 302
17 A Role for Health Informatics and Information Technology (HIIT): Shaping a Global Research Agenda to Eliminate Health Disparities......Page 322
18 An Online Multimedia Peer Education Smoking Cessation Program for Korean Youth: A Film Script Contest for Stories on Quitting Smoking......Page 348
Part 6: Training Community Health Workers and Peer Educators......Page 364
19 Training Community Health Workers and Peer Educators for HIV/AIDS Prevention in Africa: Integrating African Healing Wisdom and Evidence-Based Behavior Change Strategies......Page 366
20 The Social Education and Health Advocacy Training (SEHAT) Project: Training Peer Educators in Indian Prisons to Increase Health Awareness and Preventive Behavior for HIV......Page 388
21 Training Peer Educators, Black MSM Leadership, and Partners for Ethnographic Community-Based Participatory Research......Page 404
Part 7: Closing Gaps in Health for Special Populations......Page 416
22 Recommendations for Researchers and Clinicians Working at the Intersection of the HIV/AIDS and Methamphetamine Epidemics With MSM......Page 418
23 Lesbian and Bisexual Women of Color, Racism, Heterosexism, Homophobia, and Health: A Recommended Intervention and Research Agenda......Page 438
24 Ethnic/Racial Disparities in Gay-Related Stress and Health Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youths: Examining a Prevalent Hypothesis......Page 452
25 Health Disparities and People With Disabilities......Page 472
Part 8: Closing the Education and Health Gaps—Addressing Dual Inter-Related Disparities Through Effective Engagement......Page 486
26 Classroom-Based Interventions to Reduce Academic Disparities Between Low-Income and High-Income Students......Page 488
27 Cultivating Academic Ability Through Exposure to Supplementary Education......Page 506
28 A Supplementary Education Model Rooted in an Academic, Community, and Faith-Based Coalition: Closing the Education and Health Gaps......Page 516
29 So No Child Is Left Behind: A Peer Mentoring/Tutoring Program for At-Risk Urban Youth Attending a College Preparatory High School......Page 532
30 A Model for Comprehensive Community-Wide Asthma Education Using Partnerships and the Public School Curriculum......Page 554
31 Conclusion: The Future of the Field of Equity in Health......Page 572
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