book chapter
An ounce of prevention: community health and Italian-American women
Italian Americans and their public and private life: proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the American Italian Historical Association, New Haven, CT, November 14-16, 1991 • Staten Island, New York • Published In 1993 • Pages: 107-115
By: Krase, Suzanne.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study on the impact of ethnicity on health behavior and health outcomes, specifically breast cancer screening among Italian-American women living in Brooklyn, New York. Other studies report a disproportionately high number of invasive cancers in areas with high concentrations of Italian-American women. One study revealed that Italian-American women tend to wait until they feel the disease before they act. Krause did her own study analyzing a survey of 109 women with Italian surnames who visited a breast cancer screening van for three days in Brooklyn. She found that two-thirds of the women were there for the first time, over half of whom were over 50 years old. She concludes that social support in the neighborhood and family history were two major variables favoring positive health behavior.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Mortality
- Hospitals and clinics
- Social insurance
- Medical therapy
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Italian Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Unknown
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1991
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1981-1991
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Brooklyn, New York, N.Y., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Suzanne Krase
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 114-115)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 92056143
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italian Americans