RACE, ETHNICITY, CULTURE, AND HEALTH

Reflection paper 1

Course tittle: – RACE, ETHNICITY, CULTURE, AND HEALTH

Reflection Papers Instructions:-

These papers are reflections on the class readings and material for this week.
A Reflection Paper should NOT outline or exhaustively summarize the readings.
It should touch on all readings for the week and exclusively focus on
1) What has been learned from the reading materials,
2) Any thoughts generated by the reading materials, and
3) Whether an entire reading assignment or a part of it is agreeable or disagreeable and why.
2 pages in length
Please read the assigned reading carefully before writing the paper.

This week topics: –

 _Social ecology of health model

 _Biopsychosocial model

 _Definition and models of health disparities

 _Race in research and health disparities

Assigned Readings for this week :-

_Chapter 1: Historical Aspects of Race/Ethnicity and Health

 _Chapter 2: Conceptual Issues in Race/Ethnicity and Health

 _Chapter 4: The Epidemiological Profile of Racial/Ethnic Minorities

 _Carter-Pokras & Baquet. (2002). What is a “Health Disparity”? Public Health Reports

 _Dressler, Oths, Gravlee. (2005). Race and Ethnicity in Public Health Research: Models to Explain Health Disparities. Annual Review of Anthropology, 34:231-252.

 _Engel. (1980). The Clinical Application of the Biopsychosocial Model. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 137: 535-544.

 _Rebbeck, Halbert, Sankar. (2006). Genetics, Epidemiology, and Cancer Disparities: Is it Black and White? Journal of Clinical Oncology, 24:2164-2169.

REQUIRED TEXTBOOK

LaVeist, Thomas A. (2005). Minority Populations and Health: An Introduction to Health Disparities in the United States. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. ISBN: 978-0-7879-6413-9.

Refferences:-

Use the assigned reading as references.

Don’t use outside references.