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