Cultural Competence in Health Education and Health Promotion

Cultural Competence in Health Education and Health Promotion, 2nd edition, examines the importance of ethnic and cultural factors for community health practice. Edited and written by a stellar list of contributors who are experts in field, this book describes essential theories, models, and practices for working with race, ethnicity, gender, and social issues. The authors cover a wide range of topics including demographics, disparities, complementary and alternative medicine, spiritually grounded approaches, multicultural populations, culturally competent needs assessment and planning, communication, workforce, program planning, aging, sexual orientation, and future challenges. This edition has substantially expanded coverage on working with diverse groups, social determinants of health, spirituality, theoretical models for multicultural populations, planning and program evaluation, and aging, with new content includes coverage of disability and health literacy. This edition also reflects the latest standards for Certified Health Education Specialist certification and national standards on Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS), from Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health INDICE: Foreword  ix Preface   xii The Editors xiv The Contributors  xv Acknowledgments xix Chapter 1 Implications of Changing US Demographics for Health Educators  1 Miguel A Pérez and Raffy R Luquis Chapter 2 Diversity and Health Education 23 Alba Lucia Diaz–Cuellar and Suzanne F Evans Chapter 3 Health Disparities and Social Determinants of Health: Implications for Health Education 59 Kara N Zografos and Miguel A Pérez Chapter 4 Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Culturally Competent Health Education 87 Helda Pinzon–Perez Chapter 5 Spirituality and Cultural Diversity 119 Vickie D Krenz Chapter 6 Health Education Theoretical Models and Multicultural Populations 145 Raffy R Luquis Chapter 7 Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Culturally Appropriate Programs    171 Emogene Johnson Vaughn and Vickie D Krenz Chapter 8 Culturally Appropriate Communication  193 Raffy R Luquis Chapter 9 Foundations for Health Literacy and Culturally Appropriate Health Education Programs 217 Miguel A Pérez Chapter 10 The Aging US Population: An Increasing Diverse Population 241 William H Dailey Jr and Bertha Felix–Mata Chapter 11 Culture and Sexual Orientation 267 D Kay Woodiel and Joan E Cowdery Chapter 12 Cultural Competency and Health Education: A Window of Opportunity 293 Raffy R Luquis and Miguel A Pérez Appendix A: Selected List of Web Resources for Health Disparities    311 Appendix B: Summary of Selected Health Disparities 313 Appendix C: Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services Standards    317 Name Index 319 Subject Index 329

• ISBN: 978-1-118-34749-2
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 368
• Fecha Publicación: 12/02/2014
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés