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Health Care in the Black Community - Empowerment, Knowledge, Skills, and Collectivism (Paperback)
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Health Care in the Black Community - Empowerment, Knowledge, Skills, and Collectivism (Paperback)
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Empower patients with culture-specific strategies for promoting
health, treating disease, and preventing violence!Current reports
show that Black Americans have the highest death rate of all racial
and ethnic groups. They suffer disproportionately from a number of
fatal diseases, including hypertension, diabetes, and certain
cancers. Moreover, violence takes far too high a toll, especially
among young Black men. Clearly a different approach to health
education and promotion is needed to end this tragic waste of
valuable human lives. Health Care in the Black Community:
Empowerment, Knowledge, Skills, and Collectivism proposes an
innovative model for health professionals working in the Black
community.Traditional Western medicine focuses on sickness, the
isolated individual, and the material world. However, the
Afrocentric values of many Black people emphasize wellness, the
community, and the spiritual world. By basing health care
approaches on the community's positive values of holistic healing
and mutual assistance, Health Care in the Black Community suggests
practical, effective strategies for promoting physical and
emotional wellness. This comprehensive and informative book offers
a solid intellectual framework as well as practical advice. Health
Care in the Black Community: identifies deeply held
African-American cultural traditions and attitudes offers specific
suggestions for combining health care priorities with respect for
cultural concerns shows how to gain compliance by involving
patients in their own care and drawing on community strengths
discusses the impact of specific problems such as low self-esteem,
infertility, HIV/AIDS, and violence on Black families develops
strategies for preventing family violence by helping family members
define and identify emotions shares programs and ideas for
enhancing the physical and mental health of elderly Black people
identifies ways to overcome the drawbacks of early parenthood
Health Care in the Black Community offers health care
professionals-- policymakers, practitioners, researchers, and
educators in the fields of social work, health care, and cultural
studies--successful methods, models, and suggestions to help
improve health care in Black communities.
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