Handbook of African American Health

Chapter 1 Conceptual, Operational, and Theoretical Overview of African American Health Related Disparities for Social and Behavioral Interventions

Chapter 2 Ethics and Intervention Programming

Chapter 3 Health, Nutrition, Access to Healthy Food and Well-Being Among African Americans

Chapter 4 Promoting Physical Activity in Black Children and Adolescents: Intervention Strategies Health Practitioners Have Put into Play

Chapter 5 Reducing Tobacco-Related Health Disparities: Using Mass Media Campaigns to Prevent Smoking and Increase Cessation in Underserved Populations

Chapter 6 Preventing Childhood Lead Poisoning

Chapter 7 Contemporary Interventions to Prevent and Reduce Community Violence Among African American Youth

Chapter 8 Factor Structure and Expression of Depressive Symptoms in a Community Sample of African American Adolescents Living in Urban Public Housing

Chapter 9 Rites of Passage: Cultural Paths for HIV/AIDS Prevention in African American Girls

Chapter 10 Black–White Disparities in Birth Outcomes: Is Racism-Related Stress a Missing Piece of the Puzzle?

Chapter 11 African American Women and Breast Cancer: Interventions at Multiple Levels

Chapter 12 Prevention of Risky Sexual Behaviors Among African American Men

Chapter 13 Post-prison Community Reentry and African American Males: Implications for Family Therapy and Health

Chapter 14 Beyond the Myth: Addressing Suicide Among African American Males

Chapter 15 Increasing Cultural Competency Among Medical Care Providers

Chapter 16 Tailoring Health Interventions: An Approach for Working with African American Churches to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities

Chapter 17 Process Evaluation of a Nursing Support Intervention with Rural African American Mothers with Preterm Infants

Chapter 18 Interventions to Provide More Equitable Health Care: Emerging Evidence and Next Steps