Health issues in Latino males [[electronic resource] ] : a social and structural approach / / edited by Marilyn Aguirre-Molina, Luisa Borrell, and William Vega

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464144103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Brunswick, NJ, : Rutgers University Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-283-38311-X; 9786613383112; 0-8135-4976-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (335 p.)
• Collana: Critical issues in health and medicine
• Altri autori (Persone): Aguirre-MolinaMarilyn; BorrellLuisa N; VegaWilliam
• Disciplina: 362.1089
• Soggetti: Hispanic American men - Health and hygiene; Minorities - Health and hygiene - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Social and Structural Framework for the Analysis of Latino Males’ Health -- Chapter 1. Demographic Transformations, Structural Contexts, and Transitions to Adulthood -- Chapter 2. The Implications and Impact of Race on the Health of Hispanic/Latino Males -- Chapter 3. Improvements in Latino Health Data -- Chapter 4. Latino Boys: The Early Years -- Chapter 5. The Sexual and Reproductive Health of Young Latino Males Living in the United States -- Chapter 6.1 Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs -- Chapter 7. The Causes and Consequences of Poor Health among Latino Vietnam Veterans: Parallels for Latino Veterans of the War in Iraq -- Chapter 8. Health of Incarcerated Latino Men -- Chapter 9. Emergent Chronic Conditions -- Chapter 10. Psychiatric Disorders and Mental Health Service Use among Latino Men in the United States -- Chapter 11. Social Determinants of HIV/AIDS: A Focus on Discrimination and Latino Men Who Have Sex with Men -- Chapter 12. Health Coverage, ; Utilization, and Expenditures among Latino Men -- Chapter 13. Mental Health of Elderly Latino Males -- Conclusion: New Directions for Research, Policy, and Programs Addressing the Health of Latino Males -- Appendix: An Overview of Latino Males’ Health Status -- Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: It is estimated that more than 50 million Latinos live in the United States. This is projected to more than double by 2050. In Health Issues in Latino Males experts from public health, medicine, and sociology examine the issues affecting Latino men's health and recommend policies to overcome inequities and better serve this population. The book addresses sexual and reproductive health; alcohol, tobacco, and drug use; mental and physical health among those in the juvenile justice or prison systems; chronic diseases; HIV/AIDS; Alzheimer's and dementia; and health issues among war veterans. It discusses utilization, insurance coverage, and research programs, and includes an extensive appendix charting epidemiological data on Latino health.

America's food : what you don't know about what you eat / / Harvey Blatt

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782114403321
• Autore: Blatt Harvey
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2008
• ISBN: 0-262-26865-5; 1-4356-6797-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (347 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.19/20973
• Soggetti: Food industry and trade - Health aspects - United States; Agriculture - Environmental aspects - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-329) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Old Mcdonald has no farm: he dies, she dies, sold -- Soil character and plant growth: nature's magic -- Grain farming: the basic crop -- Organic food: as nature intended -- Genetically modified food: food fights among adults -- Chicken, eggs, turkey, and duck: fowl weather ; -- Cattle, milk, swine, and sheep: raising cholesterol -- Seafood: the killing fields -- Fruits and vegetables: plants to cherish -- Food processing: what is this stuff we're eating -- Eating poorly and too much: poor health and body bloat.
• Sommario/riassunto: We don't think much about how food gets to our tables, or what had to happen to fill our supermarket's produce section with perfectly round red tomatoes and its meat counter with slabs of beautifully marbled steak. We don't realize that the meat in one fast-food hamburger may come from many different cattle raised in several different countries. In fact, most of us have a fairly abstract understanding of what happens on a farm. In this book the author gives us the specifics. He tells us, for example, that a third of the fruits and vegetables grown are discarded for purely aesthetic reasons; that the artificial fertilizers used to enrich our depleted soil contain poisonous heavy metals; that chickens who stand all day on wire in cages choose feed with pain-killing drugs over feed without them; and that the average American eats his or her body weight in food additives each year. He also asks us to think about the consequences of eating food so far removed from agriculture; why unhealthy food is cheap; why there is an International Federation of Competitive Eating; what we don't want to know about how animals raised for meat live, die, and are butchered; whether people are even designed to be carnivorous; and why there is hunger when food production has increased so dramatically. This book describes the production of all types of food in the United States and the environmental and health problems associated with each. After taking us on a tour of the American food system, not only the basic food groups but soil, grain farming, organic food, genetically modified food, food processing, and diet, the author reminds us that we are not powerless. Once we know the facts about food in America, we can change things by the choices we make as consumers, as voters, and as ethical human beings.