Obesity Interventions in Underserved Communities

Evidence and Directions
Herausgeber: Brennan, Virginia M; Zambrana, Ruth Enid; Kumanyika, Shiriki K

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Aimed at students, clinicians, and community workers in public health and health policy, as well as family medicine and pediatrics, sociology, childhood education, and nutrition--and deeply informed by fieldwork--this book demonstrates the importance of taking a full contextual view, both historical and current, when considering the challenge of reversing upward obesity trends among ethnic minorities, impoverished people, and other underserved populations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 168mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 717g
• ISBN-13: 9781421415444
• ISBN-10: 1421415445
• Artikelnr.: 40926084

Autorenporträt

Virginia M. Brennan is an associate professor at Meharry Medical College and the editor of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. She is also the editor of Disasters and Public Health: Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma and Free Clinics: Local Responses to Health Care Needs, both published by Johns Hopkins. Shiriki K. Kumanyika is a professor of epidemiology in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology and the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine. She is the founder and chair of the African American Collaborative Obesity Research Network and the coeditor of Bridging the Evidence Gap in Obesity Prevention: A Framework to Inform Decision Making. Ruth Enid Zambrana is a professor in the Department of Women's Studies and the director of the Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is an adjunct professor of family medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.