Anjanette Wells, Vetta L. Sanders Thompson, Will Ross

Gebundenes Buch

Poverty and Place

Cancer Prevention among Low-Income Women of Color

Beschreibung

This bookexamines ways in which cancer health disparities exist due to class and context inequalities. The volume demonstrates that poverty is a health issue because it erodes the social, political, and economic support systems that enhance well-being and healthy lifestyles necessary for human development and human betterment.

Autor

Anjanette Wells is assistant professor in the School of Social Work, College of Allied Health Sciences, at the University of Cincinnati. Vetta L. Sanders Thompson is E. Desmond Lee professor of racial and ethnic diversity at Washington University in St. Louis. Will Ross is associate dean for diversity and inclusion at Washington University School of Medicine and professor of medicine in the Division of Nephrology. Carol Camp Yeakey is Marshall S. Snow professor of arts & sciences and founding director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Urban Studies and the Center on Urban Research and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis. Sheri Notaro is associate dean for graduate student affairs in the Graduate School and director of the Chancellor's Graduate Fellowship Program at Washington University in St. Louis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781498521994
• ISBN-10: 1498521991
• Artikelnr.: 54383674