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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789233403321

Titolo

Leveraging culture to address health inequalities : examples from Native Communities : workshop summary / / Karen M. Anderson and Steve Olson, rapporteurs, Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : National Academies Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-309-29259-X

0-309-29257-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (106 p.)

Disciplina

614.408997

Soggetti

Minorities - Medical care

Public health - Social aspects

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.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations and Acronyms""; ""1 Introduction and Themes of the Workshop""; ""2 Culture as a Social Determinant of Health""; ""3 Why Culture Matters in Addressing Health Inequities""; ""4 Cultural Sensitivity in Health Care Delivery and Research""; ""5 Diabetes Prevention in Native Communities""; ""6 Cancer Prevention and Treatment in Native Communities""; ""7 Reflections on the Workshop""; ""References""; ""Appendix A: Culture as a Social Determinant of Health""; ""Appendix B: Agenda""

""Appendix C: Speaker Biographies (in order of appearance)""

Sommario/riassunto

"Leveraging Culture to Address Health Inequalities: Examples from Native Communities is the summary of a workshop convened in November 2012 by the Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities of the Institute of Medicine. The workshop brought together more than 100 health care providers, policy makers, program administrators, researchers, and Native



advocates to discuss the sizable health inequities affecting Native American, Alaska Native, First Nation, and Pacific Islander populations and the potential role of culture in helping to reduce those inequities. This report summarizes the presentations and discussion of the workshop and includes case studies that examine programs aimed at diabetes prevention and management and cancer prevention and treatment programs.  In Native American tradition, the medicine wheel encompasses four different components of health: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. Health and well-being require balance within and among all four components. Thus, whether someone remains healthy depends as much on what happens around that person as on what happens within. Leveraging Culture to Address Health Inequalities addresses the broad role of culture in contributing to and ameliorating health inequities"--