Cultural Diversity in Health and Illness by
For courses in Community/Public Health Nursing, Transcultural Nursing, and CEUs. Promotes an awareness of the dimensions and complexities involved in caring for people from diverse cultural backgrounds The ninth edition of " Cultural Diversity in Health and Wellness "examines the differences existing within North America by probing the health care system, consumers, and examples of traditional health beliefs and practices among selected populations. An essential for any health-care professional, this book sets the standard for cultural perspectives and more importantly HEALTH the balance of the person, both within ones being physical, mental, and spiritual and in the outside world natural, communal, and metaphysical. (Terms such as HEALTH are written this way to emphasize holistic meaning.) An emphasis on the influences of recent social, political, and demographic changes helps to explore the issues and perceptions of health and illness today, while introductory and capstone chapters help place material within perspective. -- Provided by publisher.
Five Days at Memorial by
Summary: "In the tradition of the best writing on human behaviour and moral choices in the face of disaster, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center during Hurricane Katrina and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and to maintain life amidst chaos.
A Framework for Educating Health Professionals to Address the Social Determinants of Health by
Free PDF available for download.
Health Care Disparities and the LGBT Population by
Health Care Disparities and the LGBT Population addresses a people whose lack of health care access, including mistreatment and refusal of services, are often omitted from discussions about health care and insurance reform. Research suggests that LGBT people experience worse health outcomes than their heterosexual counterparts. Low rates of health insurance coverage, high rates of stress due to systematic harassment, stigma, discrimination, and lack of cultural competency in the health care system frequently manifest in negative health-related behaviors. The dearth of data collection on sexual orientation and identity in state and federal health care surveys has led to inadequate information about LGBT populations, and has impeded the establishment of health programs and public policies that benefit them. With its diverse perspectives, this book will not only benefit LGBT people, but will also more broadly improve the lives of entire communities, medical care, and prevention programs and services. This research provides a better understanding of the social and structural inequalities that LGBT populations experience. Improvements to our country's health care system should go beyond just providing universal insurance and should ensure equitable health care for all.
Privilege, Power and Difference by
Summary: Privilege, Power, and Difference is a groundbreaking tool for students and non-students alike to examine systems of privilege and difference in our society.
Public Health Ethics and Social Determinants of Health by
Summary: This resource places concepts of social determinants of health in the larger contexts of contemporary health ethics and the evolution of social reform. It provides needed analysis of the larger causes behind the immediate causes of illness and epidemics, particularly injustice, systemic inequities, and the cumulative effect of compound disadvantages.
The Social Determinants of Health by
Summary: "This timely book takes seriously the idea of understanding how our social world - and not individual responsibility or the healthcare system - is the primary determinant of our health. Kathryn Strother Ratcliff puts into practice the "upstream" imagery from public health discourse, which locates the causes (and solutions) of health problems within the social environment.
The Social Determinants of Mental Health by
Overview of the social determinants of mental health / Ruth S. Shim [and 5 others] -- Discrimination / Jane A. Rafferty, Jamie M. Abelson, Kimson Bryant, and James S. Jackson -- Adverse early life experiences / Carol Koplan and Anna Chard -- Poor education / Rebecca A. Powers -- Unemployment, underemployment, and job insecurity / Brian S. McGregor and Kisha B. Holden -- Economic inequality, poverty, and neighborhood deprivation / Marc W. Manseau -- Food insecurity / Michael T. Compton -- Poor housing quality and housing instability / Shakira F. Suglia, Earle Chambers, and Megan T. Sandel -- Adverse features of the built environment / Lynn C. Todman and Christopher S. Holliday -- Poor access to health care / Benjamin G. Druss, Ruth S. Shim, and Frederick J.P Langheim -- A call to action : addressing the social determinants of mental health / David Satcher and Ruth S. Shim.
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
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Author Anne Fadiman
Country United States
Language English
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date
1997 and 1998
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 352
ISBN 978-0-374-52564-4
OCLC 47352453
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures is a 1997 book by Anne Fadiman that chronicles the struggles of a Hmong refugee family from Houaysouy, Sainyabuli Province, Laos,[1] the Lees, and their interactions with the health care system in Merced, California.
Transcultural Health Care by
Contents:
Transcultural diversity and health care -- The Purnell model for cultural competence -- Individual competence and evidence-based practice (with inclusion of the international standards) -- Organizational cultural competence -- Perspectives on nursing in a global context -- People of African American heritage -- The Amish -- People of Appalachian heritage -- People of Arab heritage -- People of Chinese heritage -- People of Cuban heritage -- People of European American heritage -- People of Filipino heritage -- People of German heritage -- People of Haitian heritage -- People of Hindu heritage -- People of Hmong heritage -- People of Japanese heritage -- People of Jewish heritage -- People of Korean heritage -- People of Mexican heritage -- People of Polish heritage -- People of Puerto Rican heritage -- People of Russian heritage.
Just Medicine by
Health disparities have remained stubbornly entrenched in the American health care system--and in Just Medicine, Dayna Bowen Matthew finds that they principally arise from unconscious racial and ethnic biases held by physicians, institutional providers, and their patients. Just Medicine offers a new, effective, and innovative plan to regulate implicit biases and eliminate the inequalities they cause, and to save the lives they endanger.