Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America: Beyond the IOM ReportRichard Allen Williams Springer Science & Business Media, 22 дек. 2007 г. - Всего страниц: 500 In Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America, Dr. Richard Allen Williams assembles the very best scholars on healthcare disparities to raise the public consciousness of this issue. These experts provide the benefits of their experience and expertise as a resource for helping others to make judicious determinations about how to proceed in efforts to improve the disparities in American healthcare. Arranged into discrete categories, this volume contains comprehensive coverage, both historical and current, of the healthcare disparity crisis currently plaguing our country in hopes of leading us all to a brighter future. The volume includes chapters of examples that are currently working and concludes with recommendations on how to move forward. The text is not intended to be one in which all of the answers are given to the multitude of problems. Instead, Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America is intended to raise the reader’s level of consciousness and concern and to increase the knowledge base about the issues. This groundbreaking text will be an initial spark that ignites the fire that may one day eliminate healthcare disparities in communities around the country. |
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... racism. Although it is difficult to get our arms around the causes, we do know what the disparities are. The book by the Institute of Medicine (the IOM Report) that emerged from years of deliberations on healthcare disparities in fact ...
... racism. We must be smart and determined and not be stultified and paralyzed by prejudice; instead, we must devote our energies to defeating the forces which threaten the health and survival of a very large part of our population, while ...
... racist system of healthcare delivery is explored, and the observation that this system is still operative is documented by several pointed examples. ROOTS As was expertly shown in their monumental book, An American Health Dilemma (2) ...
... racist dogma relating to physical differences between the races. It was bolstered in the 18th century when S. T. von Sommering, a German professor of medicine, performed dissections on blacks and allegedly showed that the anatomy of ...
... racism continued to prevail despite all of the putative legal gains and civil rights advances. Essentially, medical care for blacks was contained in large part within the borders of several urban ghettos, and was dispensed through ...
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Cultural Diversity in Medicine | 41 |
Healthcare and the Politics of Race | 67 |
Medicine for Improving Minority Access to | 99 |
How Does Diversity Among | 121 |
Eliminating Disparities in Healthcare Through Quality | 141 |
A Call | 179 |
The Evolving | 197 |
JudyAnn Bigby M D 221 The Potential Impact of Performance Incentive | 237 |
Monitoring Socioeconomic Determinants for Healthcare | 259 |
A SmallGroup | 307 |
Addressing Asthma Disparities | 313 |
A Minority Physician Network | 341 |
Carolinas Association for Community Health | 365 |
Principles for Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities | 377 |
Index | 391 |
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