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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... rates” that the biological factor “deserves more research so that we can develop better therapies for African-American women at higher risk.”(3) Reports of healthcare disparities have become commonplace. Much of the debate has moved ...
... rates (6), and we ranked among the bottom of industrialized nations on healthy life expectancy at 60 years of age(7). Almost 47 million people were uninsured in 2005, about 16% of Americans. That's about twice the population of the ...
... rates” by Judy Peres (2) The Washington Post, October 17, 2006, “Race Gap Persists in Health Screening” by January W. Payne (3) Chicago Sun-Times, October 23, 2006, “Biology blamed for black breast cancer rates” by Jim Ritter (4) U.S. ...
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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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