Topics in prevalent diseases
Subtitle: a minority's perspective
By: [edited by] Norberto C. Chavez-Tapia and Misael Uribe.
Contributors: Chavez-Tapia, Norberto C.; Uribe, Misael.
Publisher: Nova Science
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604569599
Subjects: Minorities -- Medical care; Minorities -- Diseases; Minority Health; Healthcare Disparities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prostate cancer / Takashi Kobayashi, Osamu Ogawa, Oshiyuki Kamoto; title: Colon and rectal carcinoma / Sandra Garcia Osogobio and Félix Ignacio Téllez Ávila; title: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome / Karina F. Zihlmann and Jorge Casseb; title: Ischemic heart disease / Fernando Lanas and Pamela Serón; title: Stroke / Fahmi Yousef Khan; title: Metabolic syndrome / Roopa Mehta and Carlos A. Aguilar-Salinas; title: Diabetes mellitus / Hamid R. Baradaran, Mohammad E. Khamseh; title: Hypercholesterolemia / Carlos J. Rodriguez and Juan C. Brenes; title: Ambiental smoke exposure / Tonatiuh Barrientos-Gutiérrez, David Gimeno Ruiz de Porras; title: Tuberculosis / Ahmet Emin Erbaycu; title: Parasitic diseases in infants / B.R. Mirdha and Nishat Ahmad; title: Viral diarrhea / Gabriel Ignacio Parra, Karin Bok, José Paulo Gagliardi Leite; title: Asthma / K. Zaman and Shams El Arifeen, Haruko Takeuchi; title: Maternal mortality / Abha Aggarwal ... [et al.]; title: Depression / Asae Oura and Mitsuru Mori; title: Osteoporosis / Marta Pentek ... [et al.]; title: Motor vehicle accidents / Paul D. Juarez.