Ethnicity & Health: Complimentary or Contradictory Concepts in the 21st Century
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Gail Elizabeth Wyatt, PhD (bio)October 9, 2006
49 minutes
333 Recorded video views
5 Live stream views
It has long been assumed that mental and physical health are most likely shaped by biological influences. However, the history and diversity of the US requires that research and clinical practice can be better offered - and training of health professionals improved - if we understand how ethnicity and health can compliment and contradict one another. In this presentation, Dr. Wyatt will discuss thirty years of sex research funded by the NIH, the State of California and private foundations to illustrate what we know about health and mental health, the disparities that exist and what is needed for the future. These data will be presented using a historical, socio cultural, gender and sexual orientation-based framework that has influenced Dr. Wyatt's scientific, community-level research and clinical practice.