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Health and Culture: Beyond the Western Paradigm de Collins O. Airhihenbuwa, PhD

Health and Culture: Beyond the Western Paradigm

Autor Collins O. Airhihenbuwa, PhD
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 iun 1995
Offering a trenchant analysis of the effect that culture has in determining our perceptions - and expectations - of health care, this provocative volume challenges traditional, Westernized, medical models. The author surveys various aspects of the health education domain, discusses the elements that inform an educational diagnosis of health behaviour and considers the cultural appropriateness of health behaviour in general.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780803971578
ISBN-10: 0803971575
Pagini: 168
Ilustrații: 1
Dimensiuni: 148 x 215 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications, Inc
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States

Cuprins

PART ONE: THEORIZING HEALTH AND CULTURE IN THE AFRICAN CONTEXT
Culture, Health Promotion and Development
Communicating Health within Culture
Developing Culturally Appropriate Health Programs
PART TWO: REPRESENTATION AND DIFFERENCE IN HEALTH PROMOTION
Health, Healing and Medicine as Cultural Constructs
African Women's Health and the Confluence of Patriarchal and Western Hegemonies
The Cultural Production of Healthy Children and Youth
Contextualizing the Health Praxis of African-Americans
Approaches to Health Promotion Beyond the Fin de Siecle

Notă biografică

Collins Airhihenbuwa is Professor and Head of the Department of Biobehavioral Health at the Pennsylvania State University. His research interest is health and culture and he is the author of the PEN-3 model and co-author of critical race theory applied to public health. His work has informed ways of addressing the intersection of culture, race and health in many NIH -funded projects and he has facilitated research collaborations, institutional partnerships, and mentoring of junior faculty from underrepresented groups at various institutions domestically and globally. Dr. Airhihenbuwa is currently collaborating with colleagues at several universities, including the University of Minnesota, New York University, the University of Maryland, and UCLA to forge a partnership that can further build the capacity of underrepresented minority faculty members domestically and globally.

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Offering a trenchant analysis of the effect that culture has in determining our perceptions - and expectations - of health care, this provocative volume challenges traditional, Westernized, medical models. The author surveys various aspects of the health education domain, discusses the elements that inform an educational diagnosis of health behaviour and considers the cultural appropriateness of health behaviour in general.