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| Foreword | |
| Preface | |
| Editor Biographies | |
| Author Biographies | |
| Health status across the life span | |
| African American Health: An Overview | |
| "Without Health and Long Life All Else Fails": A History of African Americans and the Elimination of Racial Disparities in Health Care | |
| The Health Status of Children and Adolescents | |
| The Health Status of Black Women | |
| The Health Status of Black Men | |
| Health and Black Older Adults: Insights from a Life Course Perspective | |
| Social, mental, and environmental challenges | |
| Stigma and Mental Health in African Americans | |
| Homicide and Violence Among African American Youth: From Epidemic to Endemic | |
| Narrowing the Gap Between Supply and Demand of Organs for Transplantation: Current Issues for African Americans | |
| African Americans on the Frontline of Environmental Assault | |
| The Impact of Incarceration on the Health of African Americans | |
| Chronic diseases | |
| Hypertension in African American Communities | |
| A General Overview of Cancer in the United States: Incidence and Mortality Burden Among African Americans | |
| Health Disparities: The Case for Diabetes | |
| Systemic Lupus Erythematosus | |
| Oral Health | |
| lifestyle behaviors | |
| Substance Abuse in the African American Community | |
| HIV/AIDS in the Black Community | |
| Tobacco Use and the Black Community in the United States: A Community-Focused Public Health Model for Eliminating Population Disparities | |
| Alcohol Use and Consequences for Blacks | |
| Nutrition and Obesity Issues for african Americans | |
| Physical Activity | |
| Alternative interventions and human resources development | |
| Chiropractic Medicine: Integral to Integrative Medicine | |
| The Role of Black Faith Communities in Fostering Health | |
| Community Health Workers in the Black Community: Building Trust, Alleviating Pain, and Improving Health Access | |
| Ethical, political, and ecological issues | |
| Using Social Marketing to Lessen Health Disparities | |
| Fostering a Social Justice Approach to Health: Health Equity, Human Rights, and an Antiracism Agenda | |
| Closing the Gap: Eliminating Health Disparities | |
| Afterword | |
| Index | |
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