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Author(s):
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Juliann Sebastian, PhD, RN, CS
Angeline Bushy, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor, University of Central Florida, Daytona Beach, Florida
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9780834213647
- ISBN-10:0834213648
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Paperback 405
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1999
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Overview
Special Populations in the Community: Advances in Reducing Health Disparities takes you behind the scenes to show what really happens when health care professionals try to work with vulnerable populations to reduce health disparities. The book uses case studies drawn from Aspen's journal Family and Community Health to show how to assess relative risks and effectively address the health needs of special groups.
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Contents: THEORETICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF VULNERABILITY AND APPROACHES TO SPECIAL POPULATIONS * I was scared...: Voices of Vulnerable Parents * Parental Actions To Reduce Children's Exposure to Lead: Some Implications for Primary and Secondary Education * Correlates of Violent and Nonviolent Behavior among Vulnerable Inner-City Youths * FAMILIES WITH SPECIAL HEALTH PROBLEMS * Physical and Emotional Health in Dual-Earner Family Members * You Don't Ask for Trouble: Women Who Do Sex and Drugs * Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Anglo and Mexican American Children and Their Mothers * Families Caring for Chronically Ill Children with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex * Dilemmas in Using Respite for Family Caregivers of Frail Elders * Access to Health Care: Perspectives of African American Families with Chronically Ill Children * The Process of Chore Teaching: Implications for Farm Youth Injury * Coping with the Cost of Care: An Exploratory Study of Lower Income Minorities in the Rural South * Themes of Stressors for Childbearing Women on the Island of Hawaii * EMPOWERING SPECIAL POPULATIONS * Specializations and Clinical Judgements of Social Workers in Cases Involving Acting-Out Female Adolescents * Reconstructing a Women's Experiences with AIDS * A Comparative Analysis of Chronic Disease Prevalence among Older Koreans and Non-Hispanic Whites * The Use of Medication Dispensers in Residential Care Homes * A Multidisciplinary Health Care Outreach Team to the Homeless: The 10-Year Experience of the Montefiore Care for the Homeless Team * Physician's Receptiveness to Teen Medicaid Recipients Seeking Office-Based Prenatal Care * An Ethnonursing Study of Muscogee (Creek) Indians and Effective Health Care Practices for Treating Alcohol Abuse * Development of a Health Promotion Inventory for Poor Rural Women * Living with Cancer: Self-Identified Needs of Rural Dwellers * Implementation and Evaluation of the Health Resource Program for Migrant Women in the Americus, Georgia Area * POPULATION-BASED AND COMMUNITY-FOCUSED APPROACHES TO VULNERABILITY AND DISADVANTAGE * Vulnerable Populations: A Community-Oriented Perspective * Services Integration for Vulnerable Populations: Lessons from Community Mental Health * Partnership Building with Special Populations * RESEARCH, POLICY, AND CLINICAL PERSPECTIVES * Methodologic Issues in Qualitative Research with Incarcerated Women * Hypertext Links Related to Special Populations * Index
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Juliann Sebastian, PhD, RN, CS
Angeline Bushy, PhD, RN, FAAN-Professor, University of Central Florida, Daytona Beach, Florida
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