Full Description
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
Contents
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
Raff y 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
