Title Poverty and place : cancer prevention among low-income women of color / Anjanette Wells, Vetta L. Sanders Thompson, Will Ross, Carol Camp Yeakey, and Sheri Notaro ; foreword by Holden Thorp.

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Lanham : Lexington Books, [2019]

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Description	1 online resource
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: cancer in the face of race, poverty, and place: an introduction -- Social determinants of health and their influence on health disparities in the St. Louis metropolitan area -- Cancer disparities by site -- Health behaviors, lifestyles, and prevention -- From theories to practice, into feasible solutions -- Conclusion: poverty and public health -- References -- About the authors.
Summary	This book examines ways in which cancer health disparities exist due to class and context inequalities. The volume demonstrates that poverty is a health issue because it erodes the social, political, and economic support systems that enhance well-being and healthy lifestyles necessary for human development and human betterment.
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Subject	Cancer -- United States -- Epidemiology.
	Cancer.
	United States.
	Epidemiology.
	Poverty -- Health aspects -- United States.
	Poverty -- Health aspects.
	Poverty.
	Equality -- Health aspects -- United States.
	Health and race -- United States.
	Social status -- Health aspects -- United States.
	Social status.
	MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
	Equality -- Health aspects.
	MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
	Health and race.
	MEDICAL -- Public Health.
	Cancer -- Epidemiology.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Thompson, Vetta L. Sanders, author.
Other Form:	Print version: Wells, Anjanette. Poverty and place. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2019] 9781498521994 (DLC) 2018050121
ISBN	9781498522007 (Electronic)
	1498522009
	9781498521994 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	1498521991

Title Poverty and place : cancer prevention among low-income women of color / Anjanette Wells, Vetta L. Sanders Thompson, Will Ross, Carol Camp Yeakey, and Sheri Notaro ; foreword by Holden Thorp.

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