Black women and public health : strategies to name, locate, and change systems of power /

"Black Women and Public Health creates an urgently needed interdisciplinary dialogue about issues of race, gender, and health. An enduring history of racism, sexism, and dehumanization of Black women's bodies has largely rendered the health needs of the Black community inaudible and invisi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Evans, Stephanie Y. (Editor ), Davis, Sarita K. (Editor ), Hinkson, Leslie R., 1971- (Editor ), Wathington, Deanna J. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2022.
Colección:SUNY series in Black women's wellness.
Temas:
African American women > Medical care.
African American women > Health and hygiene.
Public health > Social aspects > United States.
Health care reform > United States.
Public Health
Social Medicine
Health Policy
Health Care Reform
Black or African American
Women
Noires américaines > Soins médicaux.
Noires américaines > Santé et hygiène.
Sociologie de la santé > États-Unis.
Services de santé > Réforme > États-Unis.
African American women > Health and hygiene
African American women > Medical care
Health care reform
Public health > Social aspects
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: race, gender, and public health: social justice and wellness work
  • Part I. Name inequity. Reversing the dehumanization of Black women
  • An overview of the past, present, and future of Black women in health policy
  • The maternal mortality crisis in the Black community
  • Promoting self-care and awareness of stress, the strong Black woman schema, and mental health among African American women
  • Part II. Locate disparity. Practice among an invisible population
  • The Black Women's Health Study: working together to improve the health of Black women
  • The swelling wave of oppression: an intersectional study to evaluate health challenges of self-identified Black queer women in the American South
  • Rural Black maternal health in the age of digital deserts
  • Pouring from a leaking cup: informal family caregivers in the Black community
  • Part III. Act for change. Black women and public health in the UK
  • Enhancing clinical practice to include biomedical HIV prevention for Black women
  • Am I my sister's mentor? Why mentoring underrepresented minority medical and public health faculty can improve the health of Black women
  • Stress and Black women's health: origins, coping strategies, and implications for policy and practice
  • Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda's yogic journey: creativity, community, and caretaking
  • When Black scholars embrace ourselves in our research, we reclaim our power
  • Afterword.

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