Cultural Competence in Health Education and Health Promotion (Public Health/AAHE)

Cultural Competence in Health Education and Health Promotion examines the importance of ethnic and cultural factors for community health practice. The first in a new series of book to be published by Jossey-Bass and the American Association for Health Education, this text describes essential theories, models, and practices for working with race, ethnicity, gender, and social issues. The volume editors and their contributors, all experts in this field, cover 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. Useful for both undergraduate and graduate students in the field of health education and health promotion, school health, public health, preventive medicine, nursing, and allied health fields, the publication is essential reading for those learning or practicing health education and health promotion.

Customer Reviews:

Exceptional and Definitive

By Miami of Ohio - August 8, 2008

This book firmly and decisively lifts cultural competence in health from the merely well-meaning into a practical and methodical approach that can affectively reach, teach, and help diverse populations. The book's mix of theory, method, and applications makes it a great tool for practicing health educators, and an easily adoptable text for health education and public health students. The authors and AAHE are to be commended for writing this important book. I urge students and practitioners to read it and put its lessons into practice.

perfect condition and quick reception

By Vickie L. Fierova - February 23, 2010

I was able to get this for a third of what the student bookstore was selling it for. It was in perfect condition and I got it within the first two days of the expected delivery time!