Cultural groups
Your Session Long Project will deal with various aspects of health of an ethnic/minority group in the U.S. and with the relationship between this group’s cultural characteristics, socio-economic status, and health.
Your Task:
Choose a culture group that resides in the U.S. Your project has to address the following issues:
Statistical data on the size, the geographical distribution, the growth, and the predominant health problems in this group.
You can use these government websites:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2007). Minority populations. Retrieved August 31, 2007, from http://www.cdc.gov/MinorityHealth/index.html
U.S. Census Bureau. (2001). Mapping Census 2000: The geography of U.S. diversity data tables. Retrieved November 13, 2008, from http://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/atlas/data.html
From the CDC site you can perform searches on any health topic as it relates to ethnicity (a proxy for culture) in the United States. Cite all the references you are using.