Volume 5 Special Issue

Health Disparities and Social Justice

Californian Journal of Health Promotion

Table of Contents

Content	Pages
CJHP Editorial Board	i-ii
Table of Contents	iii-iv
The Editor’s Corner	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