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Poverty and Place : Cancer Prevention among Low-Income Women of Color.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2018Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (193 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498522007
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Poverty and PlaceLOC classification:
  • RC276 .W455 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Cancer in the Face of Race, Poverty, and Place: An Introduction -- Chapter One. Social Determinants of Health and Their Influence on Health Disparities in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area -- Chapter Two. Cancer Disparities by Site -- Chapter Three. Health Behaviors, Lifestyles, and Prevention -- Chapter Four. From Theories to Practice, into Feasible Solutions -- Chapter Five. Poverty and Public Health -- References -- Index -- About the Authors.
Summary: This bookexamines ways in which cancer health disparities exist due to class and context inequalities. The volume demonstrates that poverty is a health issue because it erodes the social, political, and economic support systems that enhance well-being and healthy lifestyles necessary for human development and human betterment.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Cancer in the Face of Race, Poverty, and Place: An Introduction -- Chapter One. Social Determinants of Health and Their Influence on Health Disparities in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area -- Chapter Two. Cancer Disparities by Site -- Chapter Three. Health Behaviors, Lifestyles, and Prevention -- Chapter Four. From Theories to Practice, into Feasible Solutions -- Chapter Five. Poverty and Public Health -- References -- Index -- About the Authors.

This bookexamines ways in which cancer health disparities exist due to class and context inequalities. The volume demonstrates that poverty is a health issue because it erodes the social, political, and economic support systems that enhance well-being and healthy lifestyles necessary for human development and human betterment.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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