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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... whites, and that there is an ever-widening “death gap” typified by a chasm between longevity for blacks and whites. Thus, blacks are on a course towards demise, from a comparative standpoint. This latter point was brought home to me ...
... white women the rate was 23.4 per 100,000. In New York City, the rate for African American women was 35.8, and 30.7 for whites. Nationally, the rate was 34.6 for African American women, and 25.2 for white women.(1) The bottom line is ...
... whites. This negative profiling began early-on in recorded history, and evidence for this type of attitude can be found in some of the very early writings by noted scholars, scientists, educators, professors, and physicians (3). Thus ...
... White, Caldwell, Meigs, Warren, Morton, Nott, and Gliddon. It should be clear that all of these scientists believed that blacks were inferior to whites, no matter what they thought about origins. One of the earliest scientists of the ...
... white man (10). This concentration on physical differences between the races was reprehensible and was debated in the ... whites were naturally the dominant race. One example was Baron Georges Cuvier of France (11), the world's foremost ...
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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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