Author: Northern California Cancer Center. Greater Bay Area Cancer RegistryPublisher:
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Category : Cancer
Languages : en
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Cancer Incidence and Mortality in the Greater Bay Area
Author: Northern California Cancer Center. Greater Bay Area Cancer RegistryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Cancer Incidence and Mortality in the Greater Bay Area, 1988-2005
Author: Cancer Incidence Among Asians in the Greater Bay Area, 1990-2002
Author: Northern California Cancer Center Greater Bay Area Cancer Registry
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
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A cancer registry is a system that monitors cancer cases that have been diagnosed or treated in one institution or a specific geographic area. A cancer registry usually collects information from medical records provided by hospitals, doctors, and other care facilities. The Greater Bay Area Cancer Registry (GBACR) consists of two components: (1) Registry Operations and (2) Surveillance Research. The Registry Operations Unit (ROU) is responsible for collecting and managing the data, while the Surveillance Research program is responsible for conducting research using cancer registry data and examining patterns of cancer incidence in the Greater Bay Area.
Cancer Incidence and Mortality in the San Francisco Bay Area
Author: Raymond LumCancer Incidence and Mortality in the San Francisco Bay Area 1988-2001..
Author: Area Socioeconomic Variations in U.S. Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Stage, Treatment, and Survival, 1975-1999
Author: Journal of the National Cancer Institute
Author: Global Ethnography
Author: Michael BurawoyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520222164
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
"At last world.com meets ethnography.eudora. This book shows how ethnography can have a global reach and a global relevance, its humanistic and direct methods actually made more not less relevant by recent developments in global culture and economy. Globalisation is not a singular, unilinear process, fatalistically unfolding towards inevitable ends: it entails gaps, contradictions, counter-tendencies, and marked unevenness. And just as capital flows more freely around the globe, so do human ideas and imaginings, glimpses of other possible futures. These elements all interact in really existing sites, situations and localities, not in outer space or near-earth orbit. Unprefigurably, they are taken up into all kinds of local meanings-makings by active humans struggling and creating with conditions on the ground, so producing new kinds of meanings and identities, themselves up for export on the world market. This book, conceptually rich, empirically concrete, shows how global neo-liberalism spawns a grounded globalisation, ethnographically observable, out of which is emerging the mosaic of a new kind of global civil society. As this book so richly shows, tracing the lineaments of these possibilities and changes is the special province of ethnography."—Paul Willis, author of Learning to Labor and editor of the journal Ethnography "The authors of Global Ethnography bring globalization 'down to earth' and show us how it impacts the everyday lives of Kerala nurses, U.S. homeless recyclers, Irish software programmers, Hungarian welfare recipients, Brazilian feminists, and a host of other protagonists in a global postmodern world. This is superb ethnography -- refreshing and vivid descriptions grounded in historical and social contexts with important theoretical implications."—Louise Lamphere, President of the American Anthropological Association "The global inhabits and constitutes specific structuration of the political, economic, cultural, and subjective. How to study this is a challenge. Global Ethnography makes an enormous contribution to this effort."—Saskia Sassen, author of Globalization and Its Discontents "This fascinating volume will quickly find its place in fieldwork courses, but it should also be read by transnationalists and students of the political economy, economic sociologists, methodologists of all stripes--and doubting macrosociologists."—Herbert J. Gans, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University "Not only matches the originality and quality of Ethnography Unbound, but raises the ante by literally expanding the methodological and analytical repertory of ethnographic sociology to address the theoretical and logistical challenges of a globalized discipline and social world."—Judith Stacey, author of In the Name of the Family: Rethinking Family Values in the Postmodern Age "In the best traditions of radical Berkeley scholarship, Burawoy's collective recaptures the ground(s) of an engaged sociology embedded in the culturalpolitics of the global without losing the ethnographer's magic—the local touch."—Nancy Scheper-Hughes, author of Death without Weeping
Praeger Handbook of Asian American Health
Author: Noilyn Abesamis-Mendoza MPHPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313347026
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 889
Book Description
A team of noted specialists explains the health issues most common to Asian Americans, how and why treatment disparities exist, and the changes necessary to improve the health of this growing population. According to the most recent census, there are 11 million Asian Americans now, and their numbers are expected to triple by 2050. Hailing from more than 50 different countries and cultures, their health is affected by genetics, actions, beliefs, and prejudices that differ from those of others in the United States. In these timely volumes, a cross-disciplinary team of specialists explains the health issues and diseases most common to Asian Americans, how and why disparities in both disease development and treatment exist for them, and what changes must be made to improve the health of this growing group. This comprehensive collection includes vignettes and personal stories that illustrate the issues discussed and their impact on both individual and societal levels. Behavioral factors, including diet, smoking, and substance abuse are addressed. The text also describes traditional Asian American medical practices, as well as ways in which those practices have influenced American health care overall.