Diabetes and health disparities
Subtitle: community-based approaches for racial and ethnic populations
By: [edited by] Leandris C. Liburd.
Contributors: Liburd, Leandris C.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780826101280
Subjects: Diabetes -- United States -- Epidemiology; Minorities -- United States -- Diseases; Diabetes Mellitus -- ethnology -- United States; Community Networks -- United States; Diabetes Mellitus -- prevention & control -- United States; Government Programs -- United States; Health Status Disparities -- United States; Healthcare Disparities -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Diabetes and health disparities : community-based approaches for racial and ethnic populations / Leandris C. Liburd; title: Overview and epidemiology of diabetes in racial/ethnic minorities in the United States / Meda E. Pavkov ... [et al.]; title: The co-emergence of the diabetes and obesity epidemics in racial and ethnic populations / Leandris C. Liburd; title: Culture, meaning, and obesity among college-educated African American women : an anthropological perspective / Leandris C. Liburd; title: The centrality of community in eliminating diabetes disparities / Leandris C. Liburd and Janice V. Bowie; title: Recontextualizing place : The influence of residential segregation on health disparities in the United States / Amanda M. Navarro; title: Community change : its importance in evaluating diabetes programs in communities of color / Mark D. Rivera and Pattie J. Tucker; title: Project DIRECT (Diabetes Interventions Reaching and Educating Communities Together) / Joyce C. Page ... [et al.]; title: REACH Charleston and Georgetown Diabetes Coalition : improving outcomes for African Americans with diabetes / Carolyn Jenkins ... [et al]; title: American Indian Higher Education Consortium Honoring Our Health Grant Program / Kelly Moore, Carolee Dodge-Francis, and Lemyra DeBruyn; title: Cherokee Choices diabetes prevention program : the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians / Jeff Bachar; title: Making the Connection (A Conectate!) : the healthy living program / Laurie Ruggiero and Emily E. Anderson; title: Implementing environmental changes in San Luis Valley Colorado elementary schools : the School Environment Project / Elaine S. Belansky; title: Pacific Diabetes Today : cultivating community partnerships for successful and sustainable diabetes programs in Hawai'i and the U.S.-associated Pacific / Nia Aitaoto, JoAnn U. Tsark, and Kathryn L. Braun; title: A multilevel intervention approach for reducing racial and ethnic disparities in diabetes : the Bronx Health REACH Nutrition Evaluation Project / Amanda M. Navarro; title: Diabetes disparities reduction through improvement in healthy eating : the Chicago Southeast Diabetes Community Action Coalition : a CDC REACH 2010 project / Aida L. Giachello ... [et al.].