Ebersole & Hess' toward healthy aging

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Eleanor Hinton Hoytt and Hilary Beard

Health First! explores Black women's most critical health challenges, connecting the dots through honest discussions with experts and the uncensored stories of real women-from adolescence through elderhood. The focus is on prevention and awareness, across generations and circumstances-from candid conversations about reproductive health and HIV/AIDS to frank explorations of Black women's Top 10 Health Risks, including cancer, obesity, and violence.--Books in Print--

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Miriam Jacobs and Barbara Dinham

This book focuses on the widely overlooked area of gender issues in pesticide use, and its repercussions on women. In many societies, most work in the fields is done by women rather than men. As a result, not only are more women than men often exposed to pesticides, but the toxic effects impact on women in specific physiological ways. The information in this volume documents this and makes clear the urgent need for more systematic attention to gender issues in pesticide and sustainable agriculture-related research and action.

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Ilona Bray

"Helps business owners and managers target the main health concerns in the workplace and implement low-cost or free programs to increase productivity, boost morale, lower workplace stress, and potentially lower health insurance costs"--

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George W. Albee, Thomas P. Gullotta

This book highlights some of the most effective prevention programs in the United States and offers readers a common set of principles to reduce maladaptive behavior in ourselves, our children, and society. Divided into five parts, the book begins with an overview of prevention history in this country and next shows ways to operationalize George W. Albee's incidence formula. Part 2 focuses on successful programs that increase parent-child interaction and parenting ability. Part 3 explores preschool programs, some of which use parents as teachers, others of which describe quality child care programming and programs that develop problem-solving abilities in early childhood. Part 4 examines school-age programs ranging from interventions in school settings to developing social competency and job readiness. And, Part 5 focuses on prevention interventions in adulthood, specifically unemployment and depression.