Week 7 Reflection/ Discussion Post

Assignments/Reflection Post: Each weeks students are expected to upload a reaction/reflection paper on the weekly readings supplemented from current events such as media news, scientific research or others. This is not a summary of the assigned readings but your own opinions on the main issues discussed in the course materials. You need to explain why you agree or disagree on some of the issues discussed in the assigned readings. You will use the ideas and opinions expressed in this reaction/reflection paper during class discussion. Once you posted your reflection you should also respond to at least one of your peers reflection post. Please state why you agree or disagree with their perspective of the topic of discussion.

Ethnic based community health 
Reading List
       Textbook: Chapter 10, pp 302-333.
       Youlian  Liao et al. (2010) Decreases in Smoking Prevalence in Asian Communities Served by the Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) Project. American Journal of Public Health 100:5, 853-860.
       Marcus  Plescia, Harry  Herrick, LaTonya  Chavis. (2008) Improving Health Behaviors in an African American Community: The Charlotte Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health Project. American Journal of Public Health 98:9, 1678-1684.
       Michelle Crozier Kegler, Lorraine Halinka  Malcoe. (2004) Results From a Lay Health Advisor Intervention to Prevent Lead Poisoning Among Rural Native American Children. American Journal of Public Health 94:10, 1730-1735.
       Kleinman, A (1980). Ethnicity and clinical care: The Chinese patient. Physical Assistant and Health practitioner 4(1):60-68
       Kamat, V. R. (2008). Dying under the Bird’s Shadow: Narrative Representations of Degedege and Child Survival among the Zaramo of Tanzania. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 22(1): 67-93.