Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: The Forces Driving and Embodied Within a New Field of Equity in Health, Barbara C. Wallace

PART 1: New Theory, Paradigms, and Perspectives

2. Challenges in Eliminating Health Disparities, Bailus Walker, Jr.
3. Toward Evidence-Based and Culturally Appropriate Models For Reducing Global Health Disparities: An Africanist Perspective, Collins O. Airhihenbuwa and Titilayo Okoror
4. New Paradigms for Inclusive Health Care: Toward Individual Patient and Population Health, James O. Prochaska

PART 2: New Procedures and Policies--Implications for Funders, Researchers, and Policy Makers

5. What Types of Public Health Proposals Should Agencies be Funding and What Types of Evidence Should Matter?: Scientific and Ethical Considerations, David R. Buchanan and John P. Allegrante
6. Income-Related Health Disparity and Its Determinants in New York State: Racial/Ethnic and Geographical Comparisons, Kajal Lahiri and Zulkarnain Pulungan
7. Perspectives on Mechanisms of Racial Disparities in Hypertension, Gbenga Ogedegbe, Antoinette Schoenthaler, and Senaida Fernandez
8. Incessant Displacement and Health Disparities, Mindy Thompson Fullilove

PART 3: The Legacy and Role of Racism--Implications and Recommendations for Research and Practice

9. Strategies for Reducing Disparities in African Americans' Receipt and Use of Mental Health Services, Madonna G. Constantine, Mai M. Kindaichi, Sheila V. Graham, and Nicole L. Watkins
10. Genetics or Social Forces?: Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality, Richard J. David and James W. Collins, Jr.
11. A Psychosocial Model of Resilience Theory and Research: A Recommended Paradigm for Studying African Americans' Beliefs and Practices Toward Colon Cancer Screening, Anderson J. Franklin, Sweene Oscar, Monique Guishard, Shameka Faulkner, and Ann Zauber

PART 4: Collaborations, Partnerships, and Community-Based Participatory Research

12. Eliminating Disparities in Health and Disease Outcomes: A Call for Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Jamila R. Rashid, Shaffdeen A. Amuwo, Elizabeth L. Skillen, Cindi Melanson, and Robin M. Wagner
13. Grant-Writing for Community-Based Health Disparities Research and Services: The Role of Academic/Community Partnerships, Brenda D. Hayes
14. Addressing Cardiovascular Health Disparities of Chinese Immigrants in New York City: A Case Study of the Chinese-American Healthy Heart Coalition, Kenny Kwong, Henrietta Ho-Asjoe, Waiwah Chung, and Sally Sukman Wong
15. HIV/AIDS Risk Reduction with Couples: Implications for Reducing Health Disparities in HIV/AIDS Prevention, Nabila El-Bassel, Susan S. Witte, and Louisa Gilbert

PART 5: New Internet Technology--Achieving Wide Dissemination and Global Rearch

16. Using New Media to Improve Learning: Multimedia Connect for HIV/AIDS Risk Reduction and the Triangle Initiative, Frank Moretti and Susan S. Witte
17. A Role for Health Informatics and Information Technology (HIIT): Shaping A Global Research Agenda to Eliminate Health Disparities, Diane L. Adams and Brenda A. Leath
18. An Online Multimedia Peer Education Smoking Cessation Program for Korean Youth: A Film Script Contest for Stories on Quitting Smoking, Kyungmi Woo

PART 6: Training Community Health Workers and Peer Educators

19. Training Community Health Workers and Peer Educators for HIV/AIDS Prevention in Africa: Integrating African Healing Wisdom and Evidence-Based Behavior Change Strategies, Barbara C. Wallace, Ansumana Richard Konuwa, and Nana Akomfohene Korantema Ayeboafo
20. The Social Education and Health Advocacy Training (SEHAT) Project: Training Peer Educators in Indian Prisons to Increase Health Awareness and Preventive Behavior for HIV, Amrita Bahl
21. Training Peer Educators, Black MSM Leadership, and Partners for Ethnographic Community-Based Participatory Research, L. Philip Johnson and Barbara C. Wallace

PART 7: Closing Gaps in Health for Special Populations

22. Recommendations for Researchers and Clinicians Working at the Intersection of the HIV/AIDS and Methamphetamine Epidemics with MSM, Jose Nanin, Yves-Michel Fontaine, and Barbara C. Wallace
23. Lesbian and Bisexual Women of Color, Racism, Heterosexism, Homophobia, and Health: A Recommended Intervention and Research Agenda, Beverly Greene, Marie L. Miville, and Angela D. Ferguson
24. Ethnic/Racial Disparities in Gay-Related Stress and Health Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youths: Examining a Prevalent Hypothesis, Margaret Rosario, Eric W. Schrimshaw, and Joyce Hunter
25. Health Disparities and People with Disabilities, Richard M. Keller and Joe P. King

PART 8: Closing the Education and Health Gaps--Addressing Dual Inter-Related Disparities Through Effective Engagement

26. Classroom-Based Interventions to Reduce Academic Disparities between Low-Income and High-Income Students, Denise E. Ross and Yemonja Smalls
27. Cultivating Academic Ability Through Exposure to Supplementary Education, Beatrice L. Bridglall and Edmund W. Gordon
28. A Supplementary Education Model Rooted in an Academic, Community, and Faith-Based Coalition: Closing the Education and Health Gaps, Angela Campbell and Barbara C. Wallace
29. So No Child is Left Behind: A Peer Mentoring/Tutoring Program for At-Risk Urban Youth Attending a College Preparatory High School, Adrienne Chew and Barbara C. Wallace
30. A Model for Comprehensive Community-Wide Asthma Education Using Partnerships and the Public School Curriculum, Betty Perez-Rivera and Natalie Langston-Davis
31. Conclusion: The Future of the Field of Equity in Health, Barbara C. Wallace

"This is quite possibly the most comprehensive examination of health disparities written in the last two decades. Wallace and her colleagues have contributed a body of work that will engage scholars, advocates, policy makers, and educators. More importantly, however, it will challenge conventional thinking about disparities and offer a body of work rich in the material from which a new paradigm for health, equity and human rights will be constructed."
--Robert E. Fullilove, EdD
Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences
Associate Dean for Community and Minority Affairs
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University

"Dr. Wallace's edited collection provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of the new interdisciplinary scholarship on health equity. It's recommended for students, researchers, and practitioners in public health, social science and other health-related disciplines."
--Nicholas Freudenberg, DrPH
Distinguished Professor of Public Health
Hunter College and Graduate Center
City University of New York

Barbara C. Wallace, PhD, is a tenured Professor of Health Education and Founding Director of the Research Group on Disparities in Health within the Department of Health and Behavior Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University. As a Licensed Psychologist, Dr. Wallace has been honored by the American Psychological Association with the status of Fellow within both Division 50 (Addictive Behaviors) and Division 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues). She also directs the Annual Health Disparities Conference at Teachers College, Columbia University and is Editor-in-Chief of the electronic Journal of Equity in Health www.jehonline.org

Her books include: Crack Cocaine: A Practical Treatment Approach for the Chemically Dependent (1991), The Chemically Dependent: Phases of Treatment and Recovery (Editor, 1992), Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families: Prevention, Intervention and Treatment for Community Mental Health Promotion (1996), Understanding and Dealing with Violence: A Multicultural Approach (with Co-Editor Robert T. Carter, 2003), HIV/AIDS Peer Education Training Manual: Combining African Healing Wisdom and Evidence-Based Behavior Change Strategies (2005), and Making Mandated Addiction Treatment Work (2005).

Dr. Wallace was enstooled as a Queen Mother (African Traditional Ruler) in 2000 at Larteh, Ghana. She is now also known as Nana Ohemaa Oparebea Agyiriwa, II--the Abradehemaa, and is actively involved in philanthropic activities to support health education and HIV/AIDS prevention in Africa.