| 书目名称 | The South Texas Health Status Review | | 副标题 | A Health Disparities | | 编辑 | Amelie G. Ramirez,Ian M. Thompson,Leonel Vela | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Sponsored by the Institute for Health Promotion Research, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio .Provides an up-to-date status of health in the South Texas region, compared to the r | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This book is a roadmap of the exact health disparities that burden the health of South Texas residents, especially Hispanics, compared to the rest of Texas and nation. This type of knowledge has the potential to fuel and motivate researchers and public health leaders to create and shape interventions to reverse those health disparities. Most notably, focus on obesity and diabetes prevention efforts and modifiable risk factors—such as nutrition, reproductive factors and access to health care—has significant potential to reduce the burden of disease in South Texas communities.South Texas, a 38-county region that spans 45,000 square miles along the Texas-Mexico border northward to the area around metropolitan Bexar County (home to San Antonio), is home to 18% of the state’s population. Yet South Texas residents, who are 68% Hispanic, struggle with lower educational levels, less income and less access to health care—and, as a result, suffer from a wide variety of health disparities. To study the health status and identify the exact health disparities that exist in the region, researchers from The UT Health Science Center at San Antonio teamed with researchers from the Texas Department | | 出版日期 | Book‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ 2013 | | 关键词 | health disparities and HIV/AIDS; health disparities and TB; health disparities and asthma; health dispa | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00233-0 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-00232-3 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-00233-0 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2013 |
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