Poverty and place : cancer prevention among low-income women of color / Anjanette Wells [and four others] ; foreword by Holden Thorp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wells, Anjanette.

Contributor:

Thompson, Vetta L. Sanders.

Ross, Will (Will R.) (Professor of nephrology)

Yeakey, Carol Camp.

Notaro, Sheri.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cancer.

Social status.

Health and race.

Equality.

Poverty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 pages)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2018.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Lexington Books, 2018.

Summary:

This bookexamines 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 engagement with important influences of the various levels of research, policy and practice. More pointedly, the authors support a new model of community engagement that focuses on individuals in their broader ecological context. In so doing, they seek to advance the art and science of community engagement and collaboration, while disavowing the 'parachute' model of research, policy and practice that reinforces and sustains the problems associated with the status quo. The bookconcludes with broader national policy considerations in the face of the erosion of the social safety net for America's citizenry.

Contents:

Introduction: cancer in the face of race, poverty, and place: an introduction

Social determinants of health and their influence on health disparities in the St. Louis metropolitan area

Cancer disparities by site

Health behaviors, lifestyles, and prevention

From theories to practice, into feasible solutions

Conclusion: poverty and public health

References

Index

About the authors.

ISBN:

1-9787-2589-2

1-4985-2200-9

OCLC:

1501680856