Diabetes in Black America: Public Health and Clinical Solutions to a National Crisis

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Leonard Jack
Hilton Publishing Company, Nov 1, 2009 - Health & Fitness - 502 pages
In this comprehensive book, top experts in the filed of diabetes report on the clinical and public health perspective on the prevention, intervention and treatment of diabetes within the African-American community. With more than 30 contributors who are specialists in their fields participating, this book provides the latest information with regard to the diabetes epidemic, the scope and impact of diabetes and its complications on adults, and provides rich discussions across a number of important clinical and public health issues. this is a thorough look into the burden of diabetes within the African-American community, including health issues such as relationship between obesity and diabetes, treatments, family characteristics and family risk, and prevention and treatment through lifestyle-behavioral changes. Diabetes in Black America also goes in-depth into issues facing Black men with diabetes, including erectile dysfunction and mental issues as well as the issues facing Black women, including gestational diabetes.

About the author (2009)

Leonard Jack Jr., Ph.D., M.Sc., is Associate Dean for Research; Director of the Center for Minority Health & Health Disparities Research and Education; Endowed Chair of Health Disparities Research; and Professor in the College of Pharmacy at Xavier University of Louisiana. Dr. Jack also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal,Health Promotion Practice.

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