With diversity, including cultural diversity, increasingly become the norm, it has become even more essential for students and those planning to work in public health to have more than a cursory understanding of the important cultural dimension of the human societies and groups with whom they'll be partners.Essentials of Health, Culture, and Diversity: Understanding People, Reducing Disparities examines what is meant by culture and the ways which culture intersects with health issues, and explores how public health efforts can benefit by understanding and working with cultural processes. Using a range of conceptual tools and research methods, this text provides an overview of specific domains where culture and health intersect, including: varying definitions of health/well-being; understandings of health risk; illness causation and treatment theories (ethnomedical systems); healing/curing traditions; the relationship between health risk (vulnerability) and socio-cultural structures; gender and health; and the meaning of 'cultural competency.'The Second Edition provides:- A brief review of a range of cases and examples that span several health issues where health problems, as well as health interventions, were impacted by cultural factors.- An overview of research methods that focus on obtaining cultural data.- A focus on four current public health issues where culture and health intersect: HIV/AIDS, obesity, youth violence, and the COVID-19 epidemic.- An exploration of the ways in which an awareness of the culture-health relationship can inform public health work, both domestic and international.- Real-life examples and profiles as well as suggested exercises and activities help readers in understanding concepts and their application- Two in-depth case studies on autism spectrum disorder and indigenous historical trauma illustrate the broad scope interactions between culture and health.- Navigate eBook Access (included with the printed text) for convenient online or offline access to the digital text from your computer, tablet, or mobile device.
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Weight: 510g
Publication Date: 07 Apr 2022
Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers Inc
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781284226256
About Mark Edberg
Mark Edberg PhD MA Professor Department of Prevention and Community Health in the Milken Institute School of Public Health with secondary appointments in the Department of Anthropology and Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University.Dr. Edberg is a cultural anthropologist with a focus on public health (domestic and global). He is particularly knowledgeable about how poverty and marginalization and other social/structural determinants intersect with key health issues such as HIV/AIDS substance use youth violence and health disparities in general.'Dr. Edberg is currently principal investigator (PI) for two research grants from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD an NIH institute): Development implementation and evaluation of a novel youth firearms violence prevention effort in collaboration with a community in Ward 8 of the District of Columbia and a qualitative-to-quantitative effort to develop an instrument measuring indigenous historical trauma and its potential effects on health disparities among American Indian/Alaska Native communities.'