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Table of Contents

  1. A Note from the Editor
  2. Virginia M. Brennan
  3. pp. vii-x
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0010
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Heroes and Great Ideas Column

  1. A Sterling Legacy
  2. J.W. Jamerson
  3. pp. 1-9
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0011
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Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU) Column

  1. Rural Health Issues in HIV/AIDS: Views from Two Different Windows
  2. Pamela H. Foster, Ellis Frazier
  3. pp. 10-15
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0004
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Commentaries

  1. The Need for Diversity in the Environmental Health Workforce
  2. Bailus Walker, Melvin Spann
  3. pp. 16-25
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0009
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  1. Changing Corporate Practices to Reduce Cancer Disparities
  2. Nicholas Freudenberg, Sandro Galea, Marianne Fahs
  3. pp. 26-40
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0012
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Part I: Racial/Ethnic Differences, Disparities, and Discrimination in Health Care

Original Papers

  1. Quality of Anticoagulation Control: Do Race and Language Matter?
  2. Vijay K. Bhandari, Frances Wang, Andrew B. Bindman, Dean Schillinger
  3. pp. 41-55
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0002
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  1. Perspectives of African American, Amish, Appalachian and Latina Women on Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening: Implications for Cultural Competence
  2. Patricia Isabel Documét, Heidi Hauser Green, Janet Adams, Lou Ann Weil, Jami Stockdale, Yll Hyseni
  3. pp. 56-74
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0018
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  1. Age and Race/Ethnicity-Gender Predictors of Denying Smoking, United States
  2. Monica A. Fisher, George W. Taylor, Brent J. Shelton, Sara Debanne
  3. pp. 75-89
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0000
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  1. Ethnic Differences and Treatment Trajectories in Chronic Kidney Disease
  2. Sara Johnson, Dean E. Sidelinger, Estela Blanco, Lawrence A. Palinkas, Dina Macdonald, Vivian Reznik
  3. pp. 90-102
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0007
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  1. Black-White Disparities in Elderly Breast Cancer Mortality Before and After Implementation of Medicare Benefits for Screening Mammography
  2. Robert S. Levine, Nathaniel C. Briggs, Kimyona Roberts, Barbara E. Kilbourne, Baqar A. Husaini, Peter A. Baltrus, George E. Rust, Shanita Williams-Brown, Lee Caplan
  3. pp. 103-134
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0019
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  1. Predictors of Cancer Screening Among Low-Income Primary Care Patients
  2. Erica I. Lubetkin, Annabel Santana, Alan Tso, Haomiao Jia
  3. pp. 135-148
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0001
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  1. The Effects of Perceived Discrimination on Diabetes Management
  2. Andrew M. Ryan, Gilbert C. Gee, Derek Griffith
  3. pp. 149-163
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0005
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Part II: Community Contexts and Health

Brief Communications

  1. The Feasibility of Expectant Management with Inner-city Men with Newly Diagnosed Localized Prostate Cancer
  2. Satoshi Anai, Kogenta Nakamura, John Pendleton, Saif Yacoub, Charles J. Rosser, Myron Chang
  3. pp. 164-170
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0024
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  1. Design and Reach of a Primary Care Weight Management Program
  2. Daniel O. Clark, Nicole Keith, Lisa Chrysler, Anthony J. Perkins, Deanna Willis
  3. pp. 171-179
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0014
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  1. Project HEAL: Peer Education Leads to Weight Loss in Harlem
  2. Judith Z. Goldfinger, Guedy Arniella, Judith Wylie-Rosett, Carol R. Horowitz
  3. pp. 180-192
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0016
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  1. Religion and Health Connection: A Study of African American, Protestant Christians
  2. Melvin E. Gonnerman, Gene M. Lutz, Michele Yehieli, Bruce K. Meisinger
  3. pp. 193-199
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0020
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Original Papers

  1. Longitudinal Quality of Life in Low-Income Men in a State-Funded Prostate Cancer Treatment Program
  2. Mary Wassel Zavala, David C. Miller, Arlene Fink, Mark S. Litwin, Sally L. Maliski, Lorna Kwan
  3. pp. 200-215
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0026
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  1. Hair Salon Stylists as Breast Cancer Prevention Lay Health Advisors for African American and Afro-Caribbean Women
  2. Tracey E. Wilson, Marilyn Fraser-White, Ruth Browne, Joseph Feldman, Marlene Price, Peter Homel, Stacey Wright, Sonia Banks, Gwendolyn King, Beverly Coll, Donna Davis-King
  3. pp. 216-226
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0017
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Part III: Infants, Children, and Young People

Brief Communications

  1. Coping with Asthma in the Central City: Parental Experiences with Children’s Health Care
  2. Sara Grineski
  3. pp. 227-236
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0025
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  1. Children’s Mental Health Care: Differences by Race/Ethnicity in Urban/Rural Areas
  2. Embry Howell, Joshua McFeeters
  3. pp. 237-247
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0008
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  1. Multi-method Approach to Evaluate Inequities in Prenatal Care Access in Haiti
  2. Leslie King-Schultz, Rhonda Jones-Webb
  3. pp. 248-257
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0015
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Original Papers

  1. Systematic Prenatal Screening for Psychosocial Risks
  2. Patricia A. Harrison, Abbey C. Sidebottom
  3. pp. 258-276
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0003
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  1. Assessing the Moderating Effects of Anxiety Sensitivity on Antisocial Behavior among Urban African American Youth
  2. Eugene Von Nebbitt, Margaret Lombe, James Herbert Williams
  3. pp. 277-293
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0023
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Part IV: Health Care Utilization and Access

Original Papers

  1. Health Care Utilization: The Experiences of Rural HIV-positive African American Women
  2. Medha V. Vyavaharkar, Linda Moneyham, Sara Corwin
  3. pp. 294-306
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0013
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  1. State Medicaid Coverage and Access to Care for Low-income Adults
  2. Joel S. Weissman, Alan M. Zaslavsky, Robert E. Wolf, John Z. Ayanian
  3. pp. 307-319
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0021
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Review

  1. Cities and the Health of the Public (review)
  2. Rashiah Elam, Paul Meissner
  3. pp. 320-322
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0022
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Books for Review

  1. Recently Received
  3. p. 323
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0006
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