Black women's health
Subtitle: challenges and opportunities
By: editor, Yvonne Wesley.
Contributors: Wesley, Yvonne.
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hauppauge, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781608764532
Subjects: African American women -- Health and hygiene; Minorities -- Health and hygiene; African American women -- Diseases -- Risk factors; Women's Health -- ethnology -- United States; African Americans -- United States; Minority Health -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Inequities in health care and African-American women : intersectional applications of research and policy / Nsiah-Jefferson; title: Genetic and the health of African American women : finding the cure for disease and the cure for social ills / Cohen; title: Issues affecting health care of African American women with disabilities / Smeltzer; title: When I come to the end of my journey : correlates of morale in the elderly African-American female / Boseman; title: Improving the health of African American women / Amen and Taha; title: Perceptions of personal health of contemporary black women / Campbell; title: Postpartum depression and African-American women : the cultural context / Hascup; title: Black women, stress, and pregnancy / Wesley; title: Older adults : quality of life issues derived from late onset blindness / Pisani; title: Relationships among pet attachment support and human health outcomes in women of color / Krause-Parello.