Volume 5 Special Issue: Health Disparities / Social Justice – May, 2007

Table of Contents

   CJHP Editorial Board
Table of Contents
Editor’s Corner
i-ii
iii-iv
v

Forward

Solving Health Disparities in America One Community at a Time
Armin D Weinberg
vi-x

Research and Theory

Working Toward Social Justice: Center for Research on Minority Health Summer Workshop on Health Disparities
Denae W. King, Isabel Torres Vigil, Angelica P. Herrera, Richard A. Hajek, Lovell A. Jones
1-8
Race, Skin Color and Genetic Ancestry: Implications for Biomedical Research on Health Disparities
Rick A. Kittles, Eunice R. Santos, Nefertiti S. Oji-Njideka,Carolina Bonilla
9-23
Black Women and Sickle Cell Disease: Implications for Mental Health Disparities Research
Portia L. Cole
24-39
Understanding the Challenges of Reducing Cancer in Appalachia: Addressing a Place-Based Health Disparity Population
Bruce Behringer, Gilbert H. Friedell, Kelly A. Dorgan, Sadie P. Hutson, Charley Naney, Amber Phillips, Koyamangalath Krishnan, Eleanor S. Cantrell
40-49
Submaximal Decision Theory and Health Resource Conservation: The Example of Congestive Heart Failure
Kara McArthur and Clifford C. Dacso
41-47
Residential Perceptions of Environmental Exposures and Associated Health Effects in the Fresno, Texas Community
Denae W. King, Paul C. Chukelu, Brandi N. Freelon, Anissa J. Lewis, and Lovell A. Jones
48-57
A Little Rain Each Day: Psychological Stress & Health Disparities
Carlotta M. Arthur
58-67
Sexual and Reproductive Health Disparities Experienced by People with Disabilities: Myth versus Reality
Margaret A. Nosek and Darrell K. Simmons
68-81
Understanding the Socio-Economic, Health Systems & Policy Threats to Latino Health: Gaining New Perspectives for the Future
Lisa Cacari Stone, Edna A. Viruell-Fuentes, and Dolores Acevedo-Garcia
82-104
Cancer Screening Practices Among Chinese and Vietnamese in the Greater Houston Area
Beverly Gor, Truong Son Hoang, Jenny Yi, Angelina Esparza, Mike Hernandez, Lovell A. Jones
105-112
Biomonitoring and Health Disparities – Emerging Opportunities
Clement Bezold
113
Community-Based Participatory Research and Gene-Environment Interaction Methodologies Addressing Environmental Justice among Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Women and Children in Texas: “From Mother to Child Project”
María A. Hernández-Valero, Angelica P. Herrera, Sheila H. Zahm, and Lovell A. Jones
114-127
Effective Educational Strategies Combining Emerging Genetic Science and Native American Cultural Issues
Lynne T. Bemis and Linda Burhansstipanov
128-138
Interactive Lesson on the Cell
Linda Burhansstipanov and Lynne T. Bemis
139-146
Genes, Environment, and Health Disparities: Risks and Benefits of Gene-Environment Interactions Research
Samuel H. Wilson
147-163