Essentials of health, culture, and diversity : understanding people, reducing disparities /
"This book provides students of public health with tools and perspectives for understanding the relationship between culture and health. Effective promotion programs cannot be realized without attention to the cultural context. As part of the Essentials Public Health series, this critical text...
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Burlington, MA :
Jones & Bartlett Learning,
©2013.
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| Series: | Essential public health.
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Table of Contents:
- Culture and the human condition: an introduction
- There is health, and there is health ... (Laura Smith encounters a situation)
- The starting point: defining culture, defining health
- Tools and perspectives for understanding the relationship between culture and health
- Ethnomedicine I: cultural health systems of related knowledge and practice
- Ethnomedicine II: cultural systems of psychology and mental/emotional health
- The moral dimension: the relationship of etiology to morality in cultural beliefs and practices related to health
- Culture, healers, and the institutions of health
- Sociocultural ecologies of disease and illness
- Culture, subculture, and constructions of health risk
- Applying concepts of cultural diversity to health promotion
- The dimensions of culture in a sampling of current public health challenges
- A primer on research strategies to obtain cultural information
- Incorporating cultural knowledge in health promotion interventions, with selected examples
- Wrapping up: being culturally competent.