Summary
Contents
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This volume is based upon a review of available literature and intervention experiences selected from modern and traditional societies. It is augmented by the lessons learned through the editors' experience in teaching courses on health communication and foundation of health behavior in graduate public health programs at several leading universities in the United States and abroad over two decades. Examples and implications are also drawn from extensive involvement in diverse health and health communication projects, such as the on-going community-based public health project in South Central Los Angeles sponsored by UCLA and the Kellogg Foundation. This particular project is designed to develop health promotion communication interventions.
The Community as Classroom: A Health Communication Program among Older Samoan and American Indian Women
The Community as Classroom: A Health Communication Program among Older Samoan and American Indian Women
The Problem
This case study focuses on communication and health issues within two “minority-minority” groups who have often been lost within classifications of other larger minority groups: Samoans and American Indians. Because of their relatively small numbers, these two groups have traditionally been included under “Asian/Pacific Islanders” and “other.” Both groups have a history of migration from their native lands to more urbanized settings. One setting, Los Angeles County, provides access to otherwise “invisible” populations. In migrating, each group encountered personal, social, and economic stressors that have left them at risk for the development of ...
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