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Edited by Robert M. Huff, Michael V. Kline, and Darleen V. Peterson, the Third Edition of <strong>Health Promotion in Multicultural Populations</strong> offers both students and practitioners an indispensable resource on assessment and implementation guidelines for promoting health and enhancing behaviors that optimize health in any cultural community.
Hispanic/Latino Health, Cancer, and Disease: An Overview
Hispanic/Latino Health, Cancer, and Disease: An Overview
Chapter Objectives
On completion of this chapter, the health promotion student and practitioner will be able to
- Explain how the diversity among Hispanic/Latino population groups in America affects health outcomes
- Provide general background and historical information to help other students and practitioners become more familiar with the many ethnic subgroups of Hispanic/Latino Americans
- Describe how culture can affect both the focus and design of health promotion and health education efforts in the Hispanic/Latino populations
- Identify and illustrate why combining the heterogeneous Hispanic/Latino groups into one aggregated population is misleading for both practice and the scientific study of this population
- Identify and give specific ...
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