|
Showing 1 - 3 of
3 matches in All Departments
This book highlights novel and pragmatic health promotion efforts
being adopted with boys and young men of colour (BYMOC) globally
that apply a strengths-based approach. Men's adoption of risky
health practices and reluctance to seek help and engage in
preventive health behaviours have frequently been used to explain
their poorer health outcomes, particularly among adolescent boys
and young men, and disproportionately affecting BYMOC. Emerging
literature on equity and men's health has conveyed that
intersections among age, race, sexuality, socioeconomic status and
geography contribute to a complex array of health and social
inequities. There is growing evidence to suggest these inequities
shape the health practices of BYMOC. Unfortunately, these health
and social inequities can have negative lifelong consequences. An
increased focus on reducing health inequities has led to a greater
focus on health promotion actions that address social and cultural
determinants of health. The vulnerabilities that BYMOC face are
diverse and are reflected in a range of tailored health promotion
interventions. Health promotion approaches that influence
structural and systemic inequities experienced by BYMOC have been a
prominent feature. In this volume, the editors and contributors
purposefully bring together international research and promising
practice examples from Australia, the United States, New Zealand,
and Canada to celebrate health promotion strategies that help to
improve the health and social trajectories of BYMOC. In doing so,
the book moves beyond discussing the health inequities faced by
this population, to talk about the practical actions to address
them in context. Health Promotion with Adolescent Boys and Young
Men of Colour brings together diffuse strands of scholarship
relating to male health promotion, gender/masculinities and health,
equity and men's health, and gender and youth development. The book
is a unique and useful resource for practitioners, policy-makers,
researchers and students with an interest in health
promotion/public health, social work/social policy, education,
men's health, youth development, Indigenous studies, and health and
social equity.
Worldwide, men have more opportunities, privileges, and power, yet
they also have shorter life expectancies than women. Why is this?
Why are there stark differences in the burden of disease, quality
of life, and length of life amongst men, by race, ethnicity,
(dis)ability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, rurality,
and national context? Why is this a largely unexplored area of
research? Men's Health Equity is the first volume to describe men's
health equity as a field of study that emerged from gaps in and
between research on men's health and health inequities. This
handbook provides a comprehensive review of foundations of the
field; summarizes the issues unique to different populations;
discusses key frameworks for studying and exploring issues that cut
across populations in the United States, Australia, Canada, the
United Kingdom, Central America, and South America; and offers
strategies for improving the health of key population groups and
achieving men's health equity overall. This book systematically
explores the underlying causes of these differences, describes the
specific challenges faced by particular groups of men, and offers
policy and programmatic strategies to improve the health and
well-being of men and pursue men's health equity. Men's Health
Equity will be the first collection to present the state of the
science in this field, its progress, its breadth, and its future.
This book is an invaluable resource for scholars, researchers,
students, and professionals interested in men's health equity,
men's health, psychology of men's health, gender studies, public
health, and global health.
Worldwide, men have more opportunities, privileges, and power, yet
they also have shorter life expectancies than women. Why is this?
Why are there stark differences in the burden of disease, quality
of life, and length of life amongst men, by race, ethnicity,
(dis)ability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, rurality,
and national context? Why is this a largely unexplored area of
research? Men's Health Equity is the first volume to describe men's
health equity as a field of study that emerged from gaps in and
between research on men's health and health inequities. This
handbook provides a comprehensive review of foundations of the
field; summarizes the issues unique to different populations;
discusses key frameworks for studying and exploring issues that cut
across populations in the United States, Australia, Canada, the
United Kingdom, Central America, and South America; and offers
strategies for improving the health of key population groups and
achieving men's health equity overall. This book systematically
explores the underlying causes of these differences, describes the
specific challenges faced by particular groups of men, and offers
policy and programmatic strategies to improve the health and
well-being of men and pursue men's health equity. Men's Health
Equity will be the first collection to present the state of the
science in this field, its progress, its breadth, and its future.
This book is an invaluable resource for scholars, researchers,
students, and professionals interested in men's health equity,
men's health, psychology of men's health, gender studies, public
health, and global health.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Hampstead
Diane Keaton, Brendan Gleeson, …
DVD
R66
Discovery Miles 660
|