Black Women's Health: A Special Double Issue of Women's Health: Research on Gender, Behavior, and Policy

ISBN-13: 9781138431249 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Opis

This text provides an overview of the major social, cultural and structural variables that play a role in black women's poor health and differential morbidity and mortality. It focuses on such major threats as diabetes, obesity, cancer, violence and AIDS.

Spis treści

Volume 3, Numbers 3 & 4, 1997.
Contents: E.A. Klonoff, H. Landrine, D. Lang.Introduction: The State of Research on Black Women in Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine. L. Hoffman-Goetz, S. Mills, Cultural Barriers to Cancer Screening Among African-American: A Critical Review of the Qualitative Literature. E. Paskett, J. Rushing, R. D'Agostino, C. Tatum, R. Velez, Cancer Screening Behaviors Among Low-Income Women: The Impact of Race. D.J. Bowen, D. Powers, C.M. Hickman, The Importance of Psychological Variables in Understanding Risk Perceptions and Breast Cancer Screening of African-American Women. D.B. Allison, L. Edlen-Nezin, G. Clay-Williams, Obesity Among African-American Women: Prevalence, Consequences, and Developing Research. W. McNabb, M. Quinn, J. Tobian, Diabetes in African-American Women: The Silent Epidemic. L. Snowden, A. Libby, K. Thomas, Health Care Related Attitudes and Utilization Among African-American Women. N.F. Russo, J. Denious, M. Koss, G. Keita, Intimate Violence and Black Women's Health. K.J. Sikkema, T.G. Heckman, J.A. Kelly, HIV Risk Behaviors Among Inner-City, African-American Women. H. Landrine, E.A. Klonoff, Conclusions: The Future of Research on Black Women's Health.

O autorze

Hope Landrine, Elizabeth A. Klonoff