Suezanne Tangerose Orr, Caroline Orr Bueno

Young Black Women and Health Inequities in the United States (eBook, ePUB)

A Social Determinants Approach

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This important book not only highlights the high rates of morbidity and mortality among young black women in the US, but also provides a lens through which the reasons behind such health disparities can be understood.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003835325
• Artikelnr.: 69596130

Autorenporträt

Suezanne Tangerose Orr received her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill). She has been a faculty member at the University of Maryland School of Medicine; the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health; and the East Carolina University College of Health and Human Performance and School of Medicine. At each of these Universities, she taught graduate courses focused upon Psychosocial and Behavioral Aspects of Health; Race, Ethnicity and Disease; Research Methods; and Introduction to Epidemiology.

Caroline Orr Bueno completed her Ph.D. in Social and Behavioral Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University in December, 2020. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Maryland, College Park. She also holds an M.A. degree in Health Education and Promotion from East Carolina University, and an M.S degree in Counseling Psychology from Loyola University (Baltimore).

Inhaltsangabe

1.Introduction. 2.Indicators of Mortality. 3.Pregnancy Outcomes, Infant
Mortality, and Maternal Health. 4.The COVID-19 Pandemic and Black Women.
5.Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease. 6.Malignant Neoplasms
(Cancer). 7.Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD's) and HIV/AIDS.
8.Depression. 9.Homicide. 10.Health Care. 11.Conclusions.