Essentials of Health, Culture, and Diversity - Edberg, Mark
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"This book will examine what is meant by culture, the ways in which culture intersects with health issues, how public health efforts can benefit by understanding and working with cultural processes, and a brief selection of conceptual tools and research methods that are useful in identifying relationships between culture and health. The book will also include practical guidelines for incorporating cultural understanding in public health settings, and examples of programs where that has occurred"--

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"This book will examine what is meant by culture, the ways in which culture intersects with health issues, how public health efforts can benefit by understanding and working with cultural processes, and a brief selection of conceptual tools and research methods that are useful in identifying relationships between culture and health. The book will also include practical guidelines for incorporating cultural understanding in public health settings, and examples of programs where that has occurred"--
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Mark Edberg, PhD, MA, Professor, Department of Prevention and Community Health, in the Milken Institute School of Public Health with secondary appointments in the Department of Anthropology and Elliott School of International Affairs, at the George Washington University.Dr. Edberg is a cultural anthropologist with a focus on public health (domestic and global). He is particularly knowledgeable about how poverty and marginalization and other social/structural determinants intersect with key health issues, such as HIV/AIDS, substance use, youth violence, and health disparities in general.'Dr. Edberg is currently principal investigator (PI) for two research grants from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD, an NIH institute): Development, implementation and evaluation of a novel youth firearms violence prevention effort in collaboration with a community in Ward 8 of the District of Columbia, and a qualitative-to-quantitative effort to develop an instrument measuring indigenous historical trauma and its potential effects on health disparities among American Indian/Alaska Native communities.'