Handbook of Cultural Health PsychologyShahe S. Kazarian, David R. Evans Elsevier, 24/08/2001 - 488 من الصفحات The Handbook of Cultural Health Psychology discusses the influence of cultural beliefs, norms and values on illness, health and health care. The major health problems that are confronting the global village are discussed from a cultural perspective. These include heart disease, cancer, HIV/AIDS, pain, and suicide. The cultural beliefs and practices of several cultural groups and the unique health issues confronting them are also presented. The cultural groups discussed include Latinos, Aboriginal peoples, people of African heritage, and South Asians. The handbook contributes to increased personal awareness of the role of culture in health and illness behavior, and to the delivery of culturally relevant health care services.
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المحتوى
Health Psychology and Culture Specic Health Concerns | 139 |
Health Psychology Issues with Specic Cultural Groups | 303 |
Index | 475 |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
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الصفحة 242 - An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage'.
الصفحة 161 - Randomized trial of cholesterol lowering in 4444 patients with coronary heart disease: the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (4S).
الصفحة 93 - Organization defines health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being— not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
الصفحة 95 - A person's optimum state of health is equivalent to the state of the set of conditions which fulfil or enable a person to work to fulfil his or her realistic chosen and biological potentials.
الصفحة 173 - Survey (NHANES), conducted multiple times since 1960 by the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is designed to provide national estimates of the health and nutrition status of the noninstitutionalized civilian population of the United States aged 2 months and older.
الصفحة 199 - Cultural competence has been defined as a set of academic and interpersonal skills that allow individuals to increase their understanding and appreciation of cultural differences and similarities within, among, and between groups.