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Poverty and Place: Cancer Prevention among Low-Income Women of Color
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- 作 者：Anjanette Wells; Vetta L. Sanders Thompson; Will Ross; Carol Camp Yeakey and Sheri Notaro - Foreword Holden Thorp
- 出 版 社：Lexington Books
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- I S B N：9781498521994
- 页 数：192
- 所 属 分 类： 肿瘤学
- 供 货 周 期: 6
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This book examines ways in which cancer health disparities exist due to class and context inequities even in the most advanced society of the world. This volume, while articulating health disparities in the St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan area, including East St. Louis, Illinois, seeks to move beyond deficit models to focus on health equity. As cancer disparities continue to persist for low-income and women of color, the promotion and attainment of health equity becomes a matter of paramount importance. The volume demonstrates the importance of place and the historical inequity in socio-environmental settings that have contributed to marked health disparities. Through original research, this volume demonstrates that addressing the causes and contributors to women’s health disparities is a complex process that requires intervention from a socio-ecological framework, at micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of influence. The book highlights critical aspects of a practical multidimensional model of community engageme
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