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Prentice B. 2014. Expanding the boundaries: Health equity and public health practice. Washington, DC: National Association of County and City Health Officials, 64 pp.

Annotation: This book focuses on how the prospects for health and well-being are influenced by social inequalities. Contents include an overview of the early history of public health and how some of the greatest achievements prefigure a contemporary health equity practice; the root causes of health inequities including class, racism, and gender inequity and heterosexism; profiles of health equity practice; elements of health equity practice that have emerged from the work of state and local health departments across the United States; and reflections on a future health equity practice.

Keywords: Civil rights, Equal opportunities, Gender discrimination, Public health agencies, Racial discrimination, Sexism, Social discrimination

Parrott RL, Condit CM, eds. 1996. Evaluating women's health messages: A resource book. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 445 pp.

Annotation: This book examines medical, social scientific, and public messages about women's health care. Consistencies and inconsistencies are identified and gaps in the research and general understanding are highlighted. The book is divided into the following six sections in relation to agendas and women's reproductive health: political agendas, historical issues, fetal and maternal health approach, campaign perspectives, social support framework, and contemporary priorities. The section on political agendas examines abortion and illicit drug use by pregnant women. The section on historical issues reviews birth control and childbirth. The fetal and maternal health section examines women and smoking, and women and alcohol use. The section devoted to campaign perspectives looks at prenatal care, and cervical, ovarian and uterine cancers. The social support section considers research associated with breast cancer, menstruation and menopause. The final section evaluates reproductive health in terms of women and reproductive technologies, hysterectomy, and HIV/AIDS. Notes and references are included at the end of each chapter.

Keywords: Health education, Mass media, Reproductive health, Research, Sexism, Social factors, Women's health, Women's health services
   

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