Abstract
Susan Mattson, RNCOB, CTN, PhD, FAAN, is professor emerita in the College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ. At the 18th International Congress on Women’s Health in April 2010, Dr. Julio Frenk, dean of Harvard School of Public Health, asserted that global health should not be thought of as diierent from or opposed to domestic health; global includes the United States (Frenk, 2010). Global health transcends national boundaries, and health disparities can be between nations, within a nation, or between populations within that nation. Researchers usually compare ‘‘mainstream’’ populations with those in minority groups (Marsiglia, 2010). A recent article in the Arizona Republic newspaper reported that nearly one half of all children in the United States and 90% of Black children will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and children on food stamps are at risk for malnutrition and other ills linked to poverty (Tanner, 2009).
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