Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America

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ISBN: 9781934115428 | 1934115428
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/1/2007

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In this book, Dr. Richard Allen Williams has assembled the very best scholars on healthcare disparities to raise the public consciousness of this issue. 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.

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About the Editor	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xv
Introduction	p. xix
Acknowledgments	p. xxv
Contributors	p. xxvii
Underlying Causes of Healthcare Disparities
Historical Perspectives on Healthcare Disparities: Is the Past Prologue?	p. 3
Epidemiology of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Healthcare	p. 21
Cultural Diversity in Medicine and in Healthcare Delivery	p. 41
Current Problems
Healthcare and the Politics of Race	p. 67
Barriers to Eliminating Disparities in Clinical Practice: Lessons From the IOM Report "Unequal Treatment"	p. 83
Second-Class Medicine: Implications of Evidence-Based Medicine for Improving Minority Access to the Correct Pharmaceutical Therapy	p. 99
The Diversity Benefit: How Does Diversity Among Health Professionals Address Public Needs?	p. 121
Approaches to Correcting the Problems
Eliminating Disparities in Healthcare Through Quality Improvement	p. 141
Eliminating Racial Discrimination in Healthcare: A Call for State Healthcare Anti-Discrimination Law	p. 179
Quality of Care and Health Disparities: The Evolving Role of Government	p. 197
The Role of Communities in Eliminating Healthcare Disparities: Getting Down to the Grass Roots	p. 221
The Potential Impact of Performance Incentive Programs on Racial Disparities in Healthcare	p. 237
Examples of What Works
Monitoring Socioeconomic Determinants for Healthcare Disparities: Tools From the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project	p. 259
The Association of Black Cardiologists: A Small-Group Success Story	p. 307
Breathe Easy In Seattle: Addressing Asthma Disparities Through Healthier Housing	p. 313
Access Health Solutions: A Minority Physician Network Model That Works	p. 341
Carolinas Association for Community Health Equity-CACHE: A Community Coalition to Address Health Disparities in Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Mecklenburg County North Carolina	p. 365
Concluding Recommendations
Principles for Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare	p. 377
Index	p. 391
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