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Health Communication: A Multicultural Perspective
Author(s): Snehendu B. Kar (Author), Rina Alcalay (Author), Shane Alex (Author)
- Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
- Publication Date: 30 Nov. 2000
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 424 pages
- ISBN-10: 0803973667
- ISBN-13: 9780803973664
Book Description
This particular project is designed to develop health promotion communication interventions from a multicultural perspective and provides unmatched opportunities to focus on the dynamics of a multicultural community as they affect health communication interventions.
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About the Author
Shana Alex Lavarreda is a research scientist at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. As the Center’s director of Health InsuranceStudies, she works with numerous projects, including the State of Health Insurance in California (SHIC) project and the California Health Benefits Review Program (CHBRP). The SHIC project acts as a statewide and national resource for health insurance information, creating and disseminating reports, fact sheets, policy briefs and on-demand data estimates. As a member of the cost analysis team with CHBRP, Lavarreda estimates the impact of health insurance benefit mandates pending in the state’s legislature. Lavarreda is also an expert on health insurance data from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS).
