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This book examines ways in which cancer health disparities exist
due to class and context inequities even in the most advanced
society of the world. This volume, while articulating health
disparities in the St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan area, including
East St. Louis, Illinois, seeks to move beyond deficit models to
focus on health equity. As cancer disparities continue to persist
for low-income and women of color, the promotion and attainment of
health equity becomes a matter of paramount importance. The volume
demonstrates the importance of place and the historical inequity in
socio-environmental settings that have contributed to marked health
disparities. Through original research, this volume demonstrates
that addressing the causes and contributors to women's health
disparities is a complex process that requires intervention from a
socio-ecological framework, at micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of
influence. The book highlights critical aspects of a practical
multidimensional model of community engagement with important
influences of the various levels of research, policy and practice.
More pointedly, the authors support a new model of community
engagement that focuses on individuals in their broader ecological
context. In so doing, they seek to advance the art and science of
community engagement and collaboration, while disavowing the
'parachute' model of research, policy and practice that reinforces
and sustains the problems associated with the status quo. The book
concludes with broader national policy considerations in the face
of the erosion of the social safety net for America's citizenry.
This book examines ways in which cancer health disparities exist
due to class and context inequities even in the most advanced
society of the world. This volume, while articulating health
disparities in the St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan area, including
East St. Louis, Illinois, seeks to move beyond deficit models to
focus on health equity. As cancer disparities continue to persist
for low-income and women of color, the promotion and attainment of
health equity becomes a matter of paramount importance. The volume
demonstrates the importance of place and the historical inequity in
socio-environmental settings that have contributed to marked health
disparities. Through original research, this volume demonstrates
that addressing the causes and contributors to women's health
disparities is a complex process that requires intervention from a
socio-ecological framework, at micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of
influence. The book highlights critical aspects of a practical
multidimensional model of community engagement with important
influences of the various levels of research, policy and practice.
More pointedly, the authors support a new model of community
engagement that focuses on individuals in their broader ecological
context. In so doing, they seek to advance the art and science of
community engagement and collaboration, while disavowing the
'parachute' model of research, policy and practice that reinforces
and sustains the problems associated with the status quo. The book
concludes with broader national policy considerations in the face
of the erosion of the social safety net for America's citizenry.
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