Promoting Health in Multicultural Populations: A Handbook for Practitioners - Softcover

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If you are involved in health promotion and have been seeking a guide for working with cultures other than you own, you now hold it in your hands. In Promoting Health in Multicultural Populations the authors have put together an indispensable resource that offers not only a wealth of information and examples about specific cultural groups in North America, but also assessment and implementation guidelines for promoting health in any cultural community.The first unit of this handbook explores the context of culture, cross-cultural concepts of health and disease, conceptual approaches to multicultural health promotion, and suggestions for planning health promotion for multicultural populations. Subsequent units discuss Hispanic/Latino, African American, African Indian and Alaska Native, Asian American, and Pacific Islander populations. Each of these units comprises three chapters describing the characteristics of the population, providing guidelines for practice, and offering a case study that demonstrates the points made previously in the unit.The book concludes with an examination of the editors' cultural assessment framework and a look at the future of multicultural health promotion and disease prevention.

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