| 书目名称 | Poverty in the United States | | 副标题 | Women’s Voices | | 编辑 | Ann O‘Leary,Paula M. Frew | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Includes recent extensive qualitative data on women living in poverty.Provides a framework for understanding poverty.Focuses on HIV in impoverished communities.Includes supplementary material: | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This important text explores the deep relationships between poverty, health/mental health conditions, and widespread social problems as they affect the lives of low-income women. A robust source of both empirical findings and first-person descriptions by poor women of their living conditions, it exposes cyclical patterns of structural and environmental stressors contributing to impaired physical and mental health. Psychological conditions (notably depression and PTSD), substance use and abuse, domestic and gun-related violence, relationship instability, and hunger in low-income communities, especially among women of color, are discussed in detail. In terms of solutions, the book’s contributors identify areas for major policy reform and make potent recommendations for community outreach, wide-scale intervention, and sustained advocacy..Among the topics covered:.• The intersection of women’s health and poverty..• Poverty, personal experiences of violence, and mental health..• The role of social support for women living in poverty..• The logic of exchange sex among women living in poverty..• Physical safety and neighborhood issues..• Exploring the complex intersections between housing | | 出版日期 | Book 2017 | | 关键词 | Childhood Sexual Abuse; Children in Poverty; Food Insecurity; Incarcerated Women; Intimate Partner Viole | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43833-7 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-82920-3 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-43833-7 | | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 2017 |
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