- MHC Topics Brainstormed on 6/11/01
- Physical Environment
- Research Methods
- Institutional racism
- Sexism
- Homophobia and how it promulgates HIV infection in the Black community
- Gender Roles and how they effect behavior and health
- Family Structures
- Access, allocation, equity
- Resource location: parks& recreation
- Violence and safety issues
- Working conditions/stress
- Population level interventions
- Living conditions (rural/urban, housing, neighborhoods, zoning)
- Rural (access, boredom, lack of information)
- Economics/Poverty
- Poverty simulation
- "Oxfam"-type lunch
- Funding for interventions
- Environmental racism
- Behavioral risk factors
- City planning/ land use
- Media images-TV, entertainment
- Public Health infrastructure
- Education
- Law enforcement (racial profiling, loss of voting rights)
- Social welfare programs
- Cultural views of health (faith, SE Asian, Native Americans, taboos of sexual
education)
- LeonSullivan.org (Leon Sullivan Community Organization at Shaw University)
- Incarceration/ prison system (how it affects family demographics, risk behaviors)
- Teen pregnancy · HIV/AIDS
- Needle exchange
- Language barriers
- Biomedical view vs holistic view (pill taking)
- Spanish speakers
- Native American( reservation conditions, environmental racism, alcohol,
welfare)
- Social capital
- Neighborhood indicators
- Organizational resources
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