Prevention Issues for Women's Health in the New Millenium Review

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(More customer reviews)Evaluates the effectiveness of cancer education program for women attending rural public health departments and the performance of breast self-examination. Discusses the influence of sexual orientation on health behaviors in women and reduction of co-occurring distress and HIV risk behaviors among women substance abusers. Contains sections on American- Indian women and health, and, how the perception of health status influences participation in present and future health promotion behaviors among African-American women.

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Where are the fields of prevention and health promotion for women headed?This valuable book illuminates the need for-and the gains that can be achieved by-targeting prevention/health promotion programs toward minority and low-income women in the communities where they live.Reflecting the rise of women’s health issues to a national priority in the last decade, Prevention Issues for Women’s Health in the New Millennium explores the individual and contextual factors-biological, sociocultural, economic, and environmental-that affect the quality and length of women’s lives. It examines current research on disease prevention and the need for health promotion, particularly with minority and hard-to-reach women, and suggests directions for future investigation.Rather than generalizing or pontificating, Prevention Issues for Women’s Health in the New Millennium looks up close at specific studies designed to answer questions such as:
What kinds of health promotion programs could make the biggest difference in the lives of Native American women, today and tomorrow?
How effective are cancer education/support programs for rural women, and what can be done to improve their efficacy?
How does sexual orientation influence women’s patterns of health-related behavior?
How can female substance abusers lessen the distress issues that often bring on risky behavior?
How can we more effectively reach African-American women, who are twice as likely as Caucasian women to develop diabetes, hypertension, and stroke?Well referenced and complete with user-friendly tables that make the statistics of each study easy to work with, Prevention Issues for Women’s Health in the New Millennium brings you an incisive look at issues that will become prevention priorities in the near future.

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Politics in the Parish: The Political Influence of Catholic Priests (Religion and Politics) Review

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(More customer reviews)Despite a great loss in its stature over the centuries, the Catholic church arguably remains the most powerful religious organization on the planet. "Politics in the Parish: The Political Influence of Catholic Priests" is a look at the politics of the Catholic church, and how it uses its power in the modern political world. A look at how priests shape the views of their congregations with their sermons, and how Catholics can intertwine their faith with their political beliefs, "Politics in the Parish" speaks on the issues that ignite clashes between Catholic church and both the Democrat and Republican sides of politics. "Politics in the Parish" is highly recommended for community library religious and political collections.
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For well over a century the Catholic Church has articulated clear positions on many issues of public concern, particularly economics, capital punishment, foreign affairs, sexual morality, and abortion. Yet the fact that some of the Church's positions do not mesh well with the platforms of either of the two major political parties in the U.S. may make it difficult for Americans to look to Catholic doctrine for political guidance. Scholars of religion and politics have long recognized the potential for clergy to play an important role in shaping the voting decisions and political attitudes of their congregations, yet these assumptions of political influence have gone largely untested and undemonstrated."Politics in the Parish" is the first empirical examination of the role Catholic clergy play in shaping the political views of their congregations.Gregory Allen Smith draws from recent scholarship on political communication, and the comprehensive Notre Dame Study on Parish Life, as well as case studies he conducted in nine parishes in the mid-Atlantic region, to investigate the extent to which and the circumstances under which Catholic priests are influential in shaping the politics of their parishioners.Smith is able to verify that clergy do exercise political influence, but he makes clear that such influence is likely to be nuanced, limited in magnitude, and exercised indirectly by shaping parishioner religious attitudes that in turn affect political behavior. He shows that the messages that priests deliver vary widely, even radically, from parish to parish and priest to priest. Consequently, he warns that scholars should exercise caution when making any global assumptions about the political influence that Catholic clergy affect upon their congregations.

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Early Childhood Television Viewing and Adolescent Behavior: Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development (v. 66, No. 1) Review

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(More customer reviews)I needed this book for a essay in my English Comp I class. Service was quick and the book was exactly as stated in description.

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The medium of television, although a daily part of most modern lives, remains mysterious in the manner it may influence its audience. At the center of this mysery lies the debate of content vs. medium without regard to its content. This monograph presents new research in this debate by following up on a report of 570 adolescents studied as preschoolers and the long-term relationships between preschool television viewing and adolescent achievement, behavior, and attitudes. The results of the report provide stron support for content-based hypotheses then for theories emphasizing television as a medium. In an interesting twist, the results of the report trace a cognitive difference in the patterns of boys and girls and the way television influences them.

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The System in Black and White: Exploring the Connections between Race, Crime, and Justice Review

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(More customer reviews)I used this text in a course dealing with racial issues in the criminal justice system, Not only was each chapter extremely detailed, while presenting the material in a clear and concise manner. As a Sociology instructor I would highly recommend utilizing this text for courses dealing with issues of race in the criminal justice system.

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Children, Families and Violence: Challenges for Children's Rights Review

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(More customer reviews)Katherine Covell and Brian Howe have spent their life's work on advocating for the rights of children. As such, they are the perfect academics to create a resource for all of us who toil in the trenches trying to impact children's lives in our own small ways. How I wish I'd had this book years ago, when I was actively writing grant proposals, looking for reasons to offer programs not just to defined high risk families but to all families, and trying to increase awareness of toxic exposures to alcohol and more during pregnancy. This book is full of references to research on both the medical and political/policy side. Comparisons are made between the US, Canada, and Europe. Throughout, the authors link faulty child development to the presence of violence in society - both as cause and effect.
My first stop when I look at an academic book is always the bibliography. I want to be able to see that the authors have read widely, know what they are talking about, and can support their arguments. Covell and Howe exceeded my expectations, with a hefty and varied bibliography that would be a good starting ground for a reading course on the subject of children's rights.
Despite the multiple references, the text reads well and accessibly. The book is, in fact, hard to put down. Fact leads to fact leads to policy leads to the desire for action.
The first half of the book examines violence in the family on a micro level, looking at, amongst other topics, pregnancy, substance use, parenting, corporal punishment, maternal depression, and parental criminality. References here are constant, supporting statements about potentially controversial information with well-conducted studies.
The second half of the book focuses on the macro level: policy interventions, socioeconomic realities, child care policies, and more. Here the cross cultural discussions are fascinating and full of examples how different countries implement or don't implement family friendly policies, and how this fits within the context of their political and social cultures.
Howe and Covell are not unsympathetic to the challenges governments have in supporting the rights of the child, but they are also not unwilling to put government's feet to the fire. While the US comes in for a majority of the criticism, Canada doesn't escape, and no country is completely on-line. The authors emphasize that child-friendly policies include family supports (economic and other), a reformed child welfare program, and more focus on healthy child development. As the authors point out, there isn't a lack of support for the need for and benefit to be had from family friendly policies. "The essential problem is not the lack of research or advocacy but the lack of serious listening."(p. 221)
This book lays the groundwork for anyone interested in helping to increase that serious listening. Highly recommended for anyone working in the family support arena: public health nurses, social workers, physicians, obstetricians, midwives, community health centres, day care agencies, community development agencies, police services, psychologists. Also recommended for students of human rights, child rights, sociology, and public policy. And I wouldn't say no to recommending this also for military members who hope to impact the governments in various conflicts. Family friendly policies help prevent the perpetuation of violence.
A fairly extensive and very good index and an author index completes this excellent volume. Well worth the investment!

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This book examines the risk factors surrounding children at risk of experiencing and perpetrating violence, and looks at the positive role that children's rights can play in their protection.The authors propose that violence in childhood is not spontaneous: that children are raised to become violent in poorly functioning families and child-unfriendly environments. They may be exposed to toxic substances in utero, to maltreatment in infancy, to domestic violence or parental criminality as they grow up. Each of these risk factors is empirically linked with the development of antisocial and aggressive behaviour, and each reflects a violation of children's rights to protection from maltreatment. The authors show how respecting children's rights and safeguarding them from exposure to violence can shift the balance between risk and protective factors and, as a result, reduce the incidence and severity of childhood violence.This book will be essential reading for professionals working with young offenders, academics, students, practitioners and policy-makers.

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Informatics In Proteomics Review

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(More customer reviews)Once considered a pretty well known part of biology, the study of proteins has become one of the most exciting, fastest changing area. The advent of molecular-based methods of genomics combined with new techniques in bioinformatics has opened dramatic new areas for research that offer some promise in the treatment of cancer.
Such a rapidly changing field is difficult to capture in a book written by any individual, it's simply changing too rapidly. In thisbrand new book (published June 28, 2005) Dr. Srivastava has gotten many of the most advanced researchers in the field to contribute articles that truly define the state of the art as it exists today. It also provides a vision for where the field is heading, including several chapters that point into areas where new research may yield significant results.

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The handling and analysis of data generated by proteomics investigations represent a challenge for computer scientists, biostatisticians, and biologists to develop tools for storing, retrieving, visualizing, and analyzing genomic data. Informatics in Proteomics examines the ongoing advances in the application of bioinformatics to proteomics research and analysis. Through computer simulations, scientists can determine more about how diseases affect cells, predict how various drug interventions would work, and ultimately use proteins as therapeutic targets. This book first addresses the infrastructure needed for public protein databases. It discusses information management systems and user interfaces for storage, retrieval, and visualization of the data as well as issues surrounding data standardization and integration of protein sequences recorded in the last two decades. The authors subsequently examine the application of statistical and bioinformatic tools to data analysis, data presentation, and data mining. They discuss the implementation of algorithms, statistical methods, and computer applications that facilitate pattern recognition and biomarker discovery by integrating data from multiple sources.This book offers a well-rounded resource of informatic approaches to data storage, retrieval, and protein analysis as well as application-specific bioinformatic tools that can be used in disease detection, diagnosis, and treatment. Informatics in Proteomics captures the current state-of-the-art and provides a valuable foundation for future directions.

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Police Information Sharing: All-crimes Approach to Homeland Security (Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship) Review

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(More customer reviews)A Sam Spade novel this is not. Nor is it there any sex or murder. It also won't ever make the New York Times best seller list. However, "Police Information Sharing" should be on the bookshelf of everyone who is either contemplating starting, or is currently managing a law enforcement information sharing (LEIS) project. Ernie has authored the first-ever objective assessment of a Law Enforcement Information Sharing project. In this book he goes through a very detailed research project to assess how truly successful the Florida Integrated Network for Data Exchange and Retrieval (FINDER) project has been. Of particular note are what I consider to be five very important success factors that those engaging in LEIS would be wise to heed:
1. FOCUS ON OUTCOMES: Start with the end in mind--measure success with outcome measures; don't just count arrests and cases;
2. MAKE IT EASY TO USE: Take time to make sure the technology fits the task--mandate ease of use, have cops deisgn the screens;
3. MAKE IT USEFUL TO COPS: Design the system to cater to law enforcment needs--such as "push" alerting to cops when new infomration arrives;
4. CRAWL, WALK, THEN RUN: Start simple and grow incrementally--enhance sharing within your own agency first and then expand out to others; and
5. KEEP COPS IN CHARGE OF IT: As "location, location, location" is the key to real-estate success, "governance, governance, governance" is critical to LEIS success--use governance to make sure cops run the show and that they share ALL legally shareable data.
This book also provides an excellent research/evaluation framework (with sample content and processes) for existing regional LEIS projects that want to implement their own formal methods of evaluating success.
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This study of the FINDER police information sharing system provides evidence to support all-crimes information fusion and analysis as a path to improved public safety and homeland security. Examining more than 1,500 users and 1.8 million system events over a fifteen-month period, Scott demonstrates that information sharing produces performance and efficiency gains for law enforcement. Scott looks at the IT user level for the highly contextual influences on successful outcomes and relevant information system metrics. Objective system use and user-level performance measures are combined with user perception data to produce empirical models establishing performance metrics. These models identify technology, user, and environmental factors that can be employed to predict the productive use of police data shared between disparate records management systems.

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