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.

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